External processes inherit opened file descriptor, including opened sockets.
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Key: LS-512
URL: http://dev.sourcefabric.org/browse/LS-512
Project: Liquidsoap
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Liquidsoap
Reporter: Romain Beauxis
Priority: Blocker
Fix For: 1.0
When liquidsoap spawns a new process using Ocaml's open_process* functions, the
new process is created using fork() and therefore inherits all opened file
descriptors from liquidsoap.
This leads to many different type of issues, among which:
* If liquidsoap stops before an external process, any port opened by
liquidsoap remains open until all external processes have terminated
* All external processes have access to the file/sockets opened by liquidsoap,
in particular they may read a file whose content is supposed to be protected
(password) or listen to network traffic (source password for instance)
The problem is not easy. There are several possibilities:
* Define our own implementation of Unix.open_process*
* Use some shell trickery to close the descriptors before invoking the new
process. Something like:
"/bin/ls /dev/fd/ | while read i; do if test "$i" -ge "3"; then exec "$i<&-"
2>/dev/null; fi done; my_process
* Convince OCaml's maintainer to apply some patch and wait for a new release
of OCaml...
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