Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 09:25:53 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> To: mike@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: silby@silby.com, wollman@lcs.mit.edu, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_descrip.c kern_exec.c src/sys/sys filedesc.h Message-ID: <20020423.092553.68041285.imp@village.org> In-Reply-To: <20020423105336.E72727@espresso.q9media.com> References: <20020422160742.B8421@espresso.q9media.com> <20020423030714.U24733-100000@patrocles.silby.com> <20020423105336.E72727@espresso.q9media.com>
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Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
: See the prior discussion; it breaks conformance to the Standard.
: There's no reason a conforming program couldn't use closed file
: descriptors to relay a message to a an exec()'d process, for instance.
This is a nice theory, but the OpenBSD experience over the last 4
years have shown that no such programs exist.
Warner
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