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| author | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2011-01-09 23:34:42 +0100 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2011-01-09 23:34:42 +0100 |
| commit | f3df65ce34153357d28bee621bdf49b61e68b182 (patch) | |
| tree | 25ac416b157b010ca2f942dac5c5ba0b38a924ac /open_issues/secure_file_descriptor_handling.mdwn | |
| parent | 09184ae09c44c052a207aa5c6dc8ce9cf61a343f (diff) | |
| parent | 3bbe62327128ce85829a4cb2fb429bd8f21b4d75 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of flubber:~hurd-web/hurd-web
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diff --git a/open_issues/secure_file_descriptor_handling.mdwn b/open_issues/secure_file_descriptor_handling.mdwn index c9956ede..1a514e69 100644 --- a/open_issues/secure_file_descriptor_handling.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/secure_file_descriptor_handling.mdwn @@ -8,7 +8,16 @@ Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] +[[!tag open_issue_glibc]] + `O_CLOEXEC`, `dup3` et al.; see <http://udrepper.livejournal.com/20407.html>. [[tschwinge]] once worked on this, posted patches to libc-alpha. This works needs to be resumed and finished. + +--- + +In <http://lwn.net/Articles/417421/> an interesting point is made: *you [may] +want some [[unix/file_descriptor]] to still be open if 'exec' fails, but you +don't want it to be open after the exec succeeds*. [[I|tschwinge]]'m not sure +whether our current `O_CLOEXEC` implementation adheres to that. |