Re: [vdr] [patch] avoid inheritance of file descriptors

2007-12-11 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 12/11/2007 08:39 AM, Deti Fliegl wrote: > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >> Plugins can call SystemExec() just as well when the want to execute >> an external program. > Yes, but would you point every single developer on this issue? > >> IMHO it is no feasible solution to expect every file handle to

Re: [vdr] [patch] avoid inheritance of file descriptors

2007-12-11 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Klaus Schmidinger may or may not have written... [snip; FD_CLOEXEC] > Why is this suddenly such a big problem? > If a plugin wants to run an external program it can simply use > SystemExec(). > Besides, as Darren Salt pointed out, this flag is apparently only available > in the very

Re: [vdr] [patch] avoid inheritance of file descriptors

2007-12-11 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 12/11/2007 01:09 PM, Darren Salt wrote: > I demand that Klaus Schmidinger may or may not have written... > > [snip; FD_CLOEXEC] >> Why is this suddenly such a big problem? >> If a plugin wants to run an external program it can simply use >> SystemExec(). > >> Besides, as Darren Salt pointed ou