PuTTY causes the child process to inherit a lot of socket fds from
its parent, which is a pain if one of them then ends up holding open
a listening socket which the parent was using for port forwarding
after the parent itself is dead.
Therefore, this checkin sprinkles FD_CLOEXEC throughout the Unix
platform directory wherever there looks like being a long-lived fd.
[originally from svn r6917]
is liable to have been set on serial ports previously used as
terminal devices, and definitely wants not to be set on serial ports
being used for callout.
[originally from svn r6865]
I own has both an X display and a working serial port) I have been
unable to give this the full testing it deserves; I've managed to
demonstrate the basic functionality of Unix Plink talking to a
serial port, but I haven't been able to test the GTK front end. I
have no reason to think it will fail, but I'll be more comfortable
once somebody has actually tested it.
[originally from svn r6822]
