> Nobody responded to my request, so I'll assume it isn't needed and start
working on deleting it.
> In hindsight, I'm surprised that Eric didn't remove it ages ago. (Or add a
comment about why it is necessary.)
Hi Hal,
I think we close all FDs in order to reduce the number of FDs open with our
Matt Selsky said:
> I think we close all FDs in order to reduce the number of FDs open with our
> old security context. Eg, if we seteuid() after fork, we want to drop all FDs
> opened with root privileges.
That would make sense if we were talking about some big complicated program
with lots o
Hal Murray via devel writes:
>> Can somebody give me a lesson in why a program should close all it's
>> descriptors? We can clean up a lot of crufty code if we drop that.
>
> Nobody responded to my request, so I'll assume it isn't needed and start
> working on deleting it.
You're getting ahead o
