On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Guy Helmer <guy.hel...@palisadesystems.com> wrote: > On Jan 6, 2012, at 12:00 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> On 01/05/2012 14:48, Guy Helmer wrote: >>>> Allow daemon(8) to run pidfile_open() before relenquishing privileges >>>> so pid files can be written in /var/run when started as root. >>> >>> I'm not sure how useful this is since when daemon is exiting it won't be >>> able to remove the pid file (unless I'm missing something). >>> >>> Isn't it better to pre-create the pid file with the proper permissions >>> for the unprivileged user? >> >> As another aside, the file descriptor never has fcntl(, >> FD_CLOEXEC) run on it, so it leaks the file descriptors across execs.. >> that's not good... > > I just added an fcntl(…, FD_CLOEXEC) call to pidfile_open() so this > particular problem should be resolved.
I saw -- thanks! -Garrett _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
