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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.