Re: make not closing fds?

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <522317AB.1020506%netbsd.org@localhost>,
Frank Kardel  <kardel%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>While building a release I saw in fstat that commands started from make 
>had many (pipe) file descriptors allocated. Is make missing
>setting FD_CLOEXEC/closing before fork on these ? While this is not 
>really critical it opens up possibilities to clobber at least the output 
>and gobble up
>input data with misbehaved programs.

I believe parallel make passes tokens through fds to children to keep
track of how many parallel makes are running.

christos