Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 19:35:11 -0400
From: Ken Hornstein <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
| There are tons of examples like this in nmh; plenty of child processes
| are created with descriptors open.
It is worth remembering that MH was written before close-on-exec was
invented ... I suspect that much of what you're seeing is simply a
result of that, rather than anything else in particular.
Using close-on-exec sounds like the right way to me, and if it turns
out that some particular uses require a fd to be passed down (which
usually also requires some arg to tell the child which fd that is)
then those can be fixed when discovered.
kre
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