--- smartmontools-5.37/os_linux.cpp.fix	2006-10-25 19:01:42.000000000 +0200
+++ smartmontools-5.37/os_linux.cpp	2007-02-27 13:20:55.000000000 +0100
@@ -190,14 +190,14 @@
 
 // equivalent to open(path, flags)
 int deviceopen(const char *pathname, char *type){
+  int fd = -1;
   if (!strcmp(type,"SCSI")) {
-    int fd = open(pathname, O_RDWR | O_NONBLOCK);
+    fd = open(pathname, O_RDWR | O_NONBLOCK);
     if (fd < 0 && errno == EROFS)
       fd = open(pathname, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK);
-    return fd;
   }
   else if (!strcmp(type,"ATA")) 
-    return open(pathname, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK);
+    fd = open(pathname, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK);
   else if (!strcmp(type,"ATA_3WARE_9000")) {
     // the device nodes for this controller are dynamically assigned,
     // so we need to check that they exist with the correct major
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@
         errno=ENXIO;
       return -1;
     }
-    return open(pathname, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK);
+    fd = open(pathname, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK);
   }
   else if (!strcmp(type,"ATA_3WARE_678K")) {
     // the device nodes for this controller are dynamically assigned,
@@ -218,15 +218,19 @@
         errno=ENXIO;
       return -1;
     }
-    return open(pathname, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK);
+    fd = open(pathname, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK);
   }
   else if(!strcmp(type, "CCISS")) {
     // the device is a cciss smart array device.
-    return open(pathname, O_RDWR | O_NONBLOCK);
+    fd = open(pathname, O_RDWR | O_NONBLOCK);
   }
   else
     return -1;
 
+  if (fd != -1) {
+    fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC);
+  }
+  return fd;
 }
 
 // equivalent to close(file descriptor)