Description of problem:

The documentation advises to open /proc/self/fd after forking and close the file descriptor entries found in there before calling execve. However, in a multi-threaded environment many memory allocators may deadlock after fork (opendir, and readdir may allocate memory.) As well, most commonly programmers implement this by looping over /proc/self/fd while closing file descriptors which is unsafe because it is like looping over a list while removing entries from it at the same time. Instead, one should set the close on execute bit on these file descriptors when looping over the directory entries (probably using the FIONCLEX ioctl for speed.)