Mark,
My 2 cents: Isn't it more appropriate to set FD_CLOEXEC on the fd?
fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC);
It doesn't sound like you ever want to have a cached connection be copied into
the child. Mum and child calling daddy using the same phone line isn't going to
make the
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 1:38 AM, Nick Hibma n...@van-laarhoven.org wrote:
Mark,
My 2 cents: Isn't it more appropriate to set FD_CLOEXEC on the fd?
fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC);
It doesn't sound like you ever want to have a cached connection be copied
into the child. Mum and child
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 09:38:24AM +0100, Nick Hibma wrote:
Mark,
My 2 cents: Isn't it more appropriate to set FD_CLOEXEC on the fd?
fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC);
It doesn't sound like you ever want to have a cached connection be copied
into the child. Mum and child calling
I think using fcntl is nicer than having a close the cached connection
function, but I don't think I can get around this problem without
changing something in libfetch.
I think libfetch should set the Close-On-Exec flag. It's wrong to have these
files propagate to children.
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 07:27:43PM +0100, Nick Hibma wrote:
I think using fcntl is nicer than having a close the cached connection
function, but I don't think I can get around this problem without
changing something in libfetch.
I think libfetch should set the Close-On-Exec flag. It's
Hello,
We've run into problems with pkg_add because of some caching behaviour
in libfetch. Specifically, after an FTP transfer, a connection to the
FTP server is held open by the cached_connection pointer in ftp.c. Thus,
if one requests a file with fetchGetFTP() and later closes the
connection
