Tom Lane wrote:
> Dennis Bjorklund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> It was suggested to me off-list that libpq should do
> >> "fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)" on the socket connecting to the server.
> >> This would prevent any child program from accidentally or maliciously
> >> interfering with the connection.
> 
> > Either way that the lib sets it, the client can alter the setting itself
> > by issuing a new SETFD command.
> 
> That's a fair point, and certainly passing it down to the child
> intentionally wouldn't be a common case.  I'll put the change in.

Since program authors who would care about this one way or another
probably won't be expecting this behavior, it should also be
documented reasonably well -- something which I'm rather sure you were
going to do anyway.




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Kevin Brown                                           [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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