From owner-cvs-all Tue Apr 23 8:26:37 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E88F737B405; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:26:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g3NFQLH77834; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 09:26:21 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3NFQKb26185; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 09:26:20 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 09:25:53 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020423.092553.68041285.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 From: "M. Warner Losh" 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> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <20020423105336.E72727@espresso.q9media.com> Mike Barcroft 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message