http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/fcl/process/tprocess.inherithandles.html says "On Unix, setting this variable has no effect." Why is this?
The reason I ask is that often when using TProcess I run into the problem where if I execute some script or program which perhaps forks and outlives my original fpc process that this new forked process inherits all of the open descriptors belonging to my original process, which is usually not what I want. Normally I just take care of this in the child process by looping through all of the file descriptors greater than > 2 (stderr) and closing them. But it seems like in a more general sense this would be something that TProcess could do. I'm contemplating patching TProcess so that if FInheritHandles is false (default is true) it would do this. Thoughts? -SG -- This email is fiction. Any resemblance to actual events or persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Seth Grover sethdgrover[at]gmail[dot]com _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
