Hi Tom,

> Rainer> +  scoped_fd fd (open (name, O_RDONLY));
>
> You may wish to use gdb_open_cloexec.

this worked just as well, so after retesting on amd64-pc-solaris2.11,
I've committed the following patch.

Thanks.
        Rainer

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