/etc/rc.d locking devd.pid

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Kostik Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> writes:
> Why ? We definitely leak file descriptor on exec(2) unless daemon
> explicitely closes it after fork. I said that it is unobvious is it
> right to enforce FD_CLOEXEC unconditionally, because some daemons
> exec() itself to reinitialize.

Sorry, you're right, FD_CLOEXEC does not affect fork(2).

Anyway - I'm writing regression tests for pidfile(3).  Please don't
commit anything until they're done.

DES
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