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authorRyan Hancock <krhancoc@uwaterloo.ca>2021-09-09 20:05:48 -0400
committerRyan Hancock <krhancoc@uwaterloo.ca>2021-09-09 20:05:48 -0400
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Clarification of default socket flags used by Rust
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@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@
 //! * [`ToSocketAddrs`] is a trait that used for generic address resolution when interacting
 //!   with networking objects like [`TcpListener`], [`TcpStream`] or [`UdpSocket`]
 //! * Other types are return or parameter types for various methods in this module
+//!
+//! Rust disables inheritance of socket objects to child processes by default when possible.  For 
+//! example, through the use of the `CLOEXEC` flag in UNIX systems or the `HANDLE_FLAG_INHERIT`
+//! flag on Windows.
 
 #![stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]