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diff --git a/open_issues/secure_file_descriptor_handling.mdwn b/open_issues/secure_file_descriptor_handling.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1a514e69 --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/secure_file_descriptor_handling.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +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. |