Anssi Hannula wrote: > Deti Fliegl wrote: >> Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >>> Doesn't SystemExec() (see tools.c) take care of this? >> Yes you are right - it takes care internally but not for plugins like >> dvdswitch etc. In order to fix this problem you could patch every single >> plugin or just set the right file descriptor flag once. I think the >> latter does not cause any interference and should solves some issues. > > For the record, the latter creates a small race condition: an external > program could be launched before FD_CLOEXEC is set on an fd. In VDR all file descriptors seem to be allocated at startup. IMHO it is not very likely that a race condition could happen.
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