Thus said Paul Vixie on Tue, 23 Apr 2019 05:59:05 -0700: > 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.
What impact will such a decision have on tools like setlock which open a filedescriptor, obtain an exclusive lock, and then exec a process? For example, I may use something like the following in a script to prevent multiple processes from incorporating email: setlock /tmp/mit.lock inc +MyIncTmp ... Thanks, Andy -- TAI64 timestamp: 400000005cbf7b26 -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
