Re: make not closing fds?

[Frank Kardel <kardel%netbsd.org@localhost>]

That's what I assume too. But, should normal commands really get access 
to those fds?

Frank
On 09/01/13 14:06, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 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