clarify comments about socket activation (Thanks mxf)
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@ -63,8 +63,11 @@ sub activate_i3 {
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# We are about to exec, but we did not modify $^F to include $socket
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# when creating the socket (because the file descriptor could have a
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# number != 3 which would lead to i3 leaking a file descriptor).
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# Therefore, we explicitly have to clear the file descriptor flags now:
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# number != 3 which would lead to i3 leaking a file descriptor). This
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# caused Perl to set the FD_CLOEXEC flag, which would close $socket on
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# exec(), effectively *NOT* passing $socket to the new process.
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# Therefore, we explicitly clear FD_CLOEXEC (the only flag right now)
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# by setting the flags to 0.
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POSIX::fcntl($socket, F_SETFD, 0) or die "Could not clear fd flags: $!";
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# If the socket does not use file descriptor 3 by chance already, we
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