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Date:      Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:06:07 +0100
From:      Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
To:        Guy Helmer <ghelmer@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r229936 - head/lib/libutil
Message-ID:  <20120110230607.GA15897@stack.nl>
In-Reply-To: <201201101843.q0AIhRuM022949@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201201101843.q0AIhRuM022949@svn.freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 06:43:27PM +0000, Guy Helmer wrote:
> Author: ghelmer
> Date: Tue Jan 10 18:43:27 2012
> New Revision: 229936
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/229936

> Log:
>   Set the FD_CLOEXEC flag on the open pidfile file descriptor.

>   Discussed with: pjd, des

> Modified:
>   head/lib/libutil/pidfile.c

> +	/*
> +	 * Prevent the file descriptor from escaping to other
> +	 * programs via exec(3).
> +	 */
> +	if (fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) == -1) {

Consider adding O_CLOEXEC to the flopen() flags instead. That saves a
system call and removes a possible race condition with fork/exec from
threads or signal handlers.

-- 
Jilles Tjoelker



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