[Patch] libfetch - closing the cached FTP connection

Mark Johnston markjdb at gmail.com
Fri Nov 5 19:00:24 UTC 2010


On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 07:27:43PM +0100, Nick Hibma wrote:
> > I think using fcntl is nicer than having a "close the cached connection"
> > function, but I don't think I can get around this problem without
> > changing something in libfetch.
> 
> I think libfetch should set the Close-On-Exec flag. It's wrong to have these files propagate to children.
> 
> Nick_______________________________________________

Oh I see, I thought you were talking about changing pkg_add alone. I'll
post an alternative patch to the PR I opened (bin/151866).

Thanks,
-Mark


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