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Re: STDERR_FILENO on HP-UX
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: STDERR_FILENO on HP-UX |
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Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:46:56 +0200 |
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James Youngman wrote:
> > 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
Thanks for this info. I'm updating the comments:
2011-06-12 Bruno Haible <address@hidden>
spawn-pipe tests: Comments.
* tests/test-spawn-pipe-child.c (main): Update comment.
Reported by James Youngman <address@hidden>.
--- tests/test-spawn-pipe-child.c.orig Sun Jun 12 14:45:16 2011
+++ tests/test-spawn-pipe-child.c Sat Jun 11 11:38:12 2011
@@ -97,7 +97,8 @@
case 1:
/* Expect fd 2 is closed.
But on HP-UX 11, fd 2 gets automatically re-opened to /dev/null if it
- was closed. */
+ was closed. Future POSIX will allow this, see
+ <http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=173>. */
#if !defined __hpux
ASSERT (! is_open (STDERR_FILENO));
#endif
--
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