Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 14:40:02 +1000 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: eischen@vigrid.com (Daniel M. Eischen) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, mi@aldan.algebra.com, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uthread_init.c: 'Cannot get stdio flags' :-( Message-ID: <199907280440.OAA55371@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <379E8126.3541FDA9@vigrid.com> from "Daniel M. Eischen" at "Jul 28, 1999 00:03:50 am"
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Daniel M. Eischen wrote:
> John Birrell wrote:
> > Looks like ${PREFIX}/sbin/faxq has closed file descriptor 0 (stdin).
> > It's legal to do that, so our thread initialisation will have to check
> > for EBADF and not fail in that case.
>
> Assuming it's also legal for stdout and stderr, is this what you had
> in mind (not compiled or tested)?
Yes, at least as far as the initialisation goes. There is probably an issue
about restoring the file descriptors on fork/exit/sigchld that I haven't
thought through.
[ I replied to this without looking at the sources, so what I just said
may turn out to be of no consequence. I could claim that I'm so busy,
but the truth is it's a sunny winter day here. 8-) ]
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