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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. |