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Re: [nmh-workers] closefds() _before_ fork?

2019-04-23 08:00:08


Ralph Corderoy wrote on 2019-04-23 05:10:
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I agree with the general principle that if we open it, we track it, and
then close it so it doesn't reach the child, typically with O_CLOEXEC or
FD_CLOEXEC.  ...

to that end, i propose that we treat any open descriptor N>2 at the time of an exec() to be a bug, which is to be fixed by setting O_CLOEXEC at time of creation.

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P Vixie


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