lib/PublicInbox/DS.pm     | 3 +--
 lib/PublicInbox/Daemon.pm | 7 ++-----

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/DS.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/DS.pm
index a6c43b22d960ae9c01765e126677f3521c44e115..e4629e97acc461aaa2debbe1687db8f0aecab796 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/DS.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/DS.pm
@@ -130,8 +130,7 @@ 	if (defined $PublicInbox::Syscall::SYS_epoll_create)  {
 		my $fd = epoll_create();
 		die "epoll_create: $!" if $fd < 0;
 		open($ep_io, '+<&=', $fd) or return;
-		my $fl = fcntl($ep_io, F_GETFD, 0);
-		fcntl($ep_io, F_SETFD, $fl | FD_CLOEXEC);
+		fcntl($ep_io, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC);
 		$fd;
 	} else {
 		my $cls;
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Daemon.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Daemon.pm
index 16bae23106e746cd4dd53c7cfb99dcc83693eb79..ee746f057d66b5a1df5daa196671026323d72bab 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Daemon.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Daemon.pm
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ use Getopt::Long qw(:config gnu_getopt no_ignore_case auto_abbrev);
 use IO::Handle; # ->autoflush
 use IO::Socket;
 use File::Spec;
-use POSIX qw(WNOHANG :signal_h);
+use POSIX qw(WNOHANG :signal_h F_SETFD);
 use Socket qw(IPPROTO_TCP SOL_SOCKET);
 STDOUT->autoflush(1);
 STDERR->autoflush(1);
@@ -478,15 +478,12 @@ 		warn "fork failed: $!\n";
 		return;
 	}
 	if ($pid == 0) {
-		use Fcntl qw(FD_CLOEXEC F_SETFD F_GETFD);
 		$ENV{LISTEN_FDS} = scalar @listeners;
 		$ENV{LISTEN_PID} = $$;
 		foreach my $s (@listeners) {
 			# @listeners are globs with workers, PI::L w/o workers
 			$s = $s->{sock} if ref($s) eq 'PublicInbox::Listener';
-
-			my $fl = fcntl($s, F_GETFD, 0);
-			fcntl($s, F_SETFD, $fl &= ~FD_CLOEXEC);
+			fcntl($s, F_SETFD, 0) // die "F_SETFD: $!";
 		}
 		exec @CMD;
 		die "Failed to exec: $!\n";