severity 713967 wishlist thanks Am Mittwoch, 3. Juli 2013, 14:37:40 schrieb Markus Frosch: > Though in terms of closing fds when forking a daemon I'd like to > point at the following tutorial: > http://www.fifi.org/doc/debconf-doc/tutorial.html#AEN198 > > [quote] > Your postinst uses debconf and starts a daemon that doesn't close > all inherited file descriptors (all such daemons are buggy, > really). This makes debconf hang, because the debconf frontend > waits for the daemon to close the fd's before continuing. Note that > if you use confmodule, the program probably needs to close fd's 0, > 1, 2, and 3. > [/quote] > > This should be fixed in Apache2 IMHO, but I will implement db_stop > as well.
I disagree with the above statement. There is no reasonable portable way to do that for httpd. But the calling process knows which FDs are open, so it should close them.
