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It closes all unused file-descriptors on posix after the fork and removes the inherit flags on windows.</p> 39<div class="note"><table border="0" summary="Note"> 40<tr> 41<td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Note]" src="../../../../doc/src/images/note.png"></td> 42<th align="left">Note</th> 43</tr> 44<tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>This is executed after the fork on posix.</p></td></tr> 45</table></div> 46<p> 47</p> 48<pre class="programlisting"><span class="identifier">system</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="string">"gcc"</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">limit_handles</span><span class="special">)</span><span class="special">;</span> 49</pre> 50<p>Since limit also closes the standard handles unless they are explicitly redirected they can be ignored by <code class="computeroutput">limit_handles</code> in the following way.</p> 51<pre class="programlisting"><span class="identifier">system</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="string">"gcc"</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">limit_handles</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">allowStd</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="special">)</span><span class="special">)</span> 52</pre> 53<p> </p> 54</div> 55</div> 56<table xmlns:rev="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/tools/doc/revision" width="100%"><tr> 57<td align="left"></td> 58<td align="right"><div class="copyright-footer">Copyright © 2006-2012 Julio M. 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