61.11. Inheritance of Flags and Options Across accept()

Various flags and settings can be associated with open file descriptions and file descriptors (Section 5.4). Furthermore, as described in Section 61.9, various options can be set for a socket. If these flags and options are set on a listening socket, are they inherited by the new socket returned by accept()? We describe the details here.

On Linux, the following attributes are not inherited by the new file descriptor returned by accept():