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Re: STDERR_FILENO on HP-UX


From: James Youngman
Subject: Re: STDERR_FILENO on HP-UX
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 01:42:23 +0100

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> Bruno Haible wrote:

>> Apparently, although fd 2 was closed in the parent process, it is open again
>> in the child process. This must happen in the exec* calls, since posix_spawn
>
> This is a security (mis)feature of HP-UX.
> I noticed it with closeout-related tests a few years ago.

I believe this anticipates an upcoming POSIX change:
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=173

James.



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