diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index a3d70c9..ff07d26 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 name = "mapped-file"
 description = "Construct a memory mapping over any file object"
 keywords = ["unix", "mmap", "generic", "file", "fd"]
-version = "0.0.8"
+version = "0.0.8-r1"
 edition = "2021"
 repository="https://github.com/notflan/mapped-file"
 license="MIT"
@@ -10,10 +10,18 @@ license="MIT"
 # See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
 
 [features]
+default = ["default-cloexec"]
+
 # Add support for file-descriptor operations other than simply mapping
 # TODO: XXX: Incomplete, will be enabled by default when complete
 file=[]
 
+# Default to opening any internal file-descriptors as `O_CLOEXEC` (close-on-execute.) 
+# For `file` feature: `MFD_CLOEXEC`/`FD_CLOEXEC` will be used in creation of all memfds by default.
+#
+# NOTE: This is currently not configureable within the interface. To prevent API-break, this feature exists to allow some configuration of this option. (TODO: In the future, this should be in the interface for `MemoryFile`/`NamedMemoryFile` et al.)
+default-cloexec = []
+
 [dependencies]
 lazy_static = "1.4.0"
 libc = "0.2.132"
diff --git a/src/file/memory.rs b/src/file/memory.rs
index 9dfbba2..1c14231 100644
--- a/src/file/memory.rs
+++ b/src/file/memory.rs
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ static UNNAMED: &'static CStr = unsafe {
     CStr::from_bytes_with_nul_unchecked(b"<unnamed memory file>\0")
 };
 
-const DEFAULT_FLAGS: c_uint = MFD_CLOEXEC;
+const DEFAULT_FLAGS: c_uint = if cfg!(feature="default-cloexec") { MFD_CLOEXEC } else { 0 };
 
 #[inline(always)]
 //XXX: Is the static bound required here?
@@ -235,3 +235,14 @@ impl From<MemoryFile> for std::fs::File
 }
 
 raw::impl_io_for_fd!(MemoryFile => .0.as_raw_fd());
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod test {
+    #[test]
+    fn default_flag_cloexec_visible()
+    {
+        println!("Default flags: {} (default-cloexec: {})", super::DEFAULT_FLAGS, cfg!(feature="default-cloexec"));
+
+        assert_eq!(super::DEFAULT_FLAGS, cfg!(feature="default-cloexec").then(|| super::MFD_CLOEXEC).unwrap_or_default(), "Compile-time default creation flags are not in accordance with provided global crate configuration");
+    }
+}