Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 14:59:58 -0400 From: Mark Johnston <markjdb@gmail.com> To: Nick Hibma <nick@van-laarhoven.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Patch] libfetch - closing the cached FTP connection Message-ID: <20101105185958.GC1437@mark-laptop-bsd.mark-home> In-Reply-To: <08D6E625-5BE9-4121-A0D8-8B5BDA20A813@van-laarhoven.org> References: <20101024231119.GA2123@mark-laptop-bsd.mark-home> <20101024231642.GB2123@mark-laptop-bsd.mark-home> <A72115A0-00E4-4FDB-974C-E06D31116794@van-laarhoven.org> <20101105152009.GB1437@mark-laptop-bsd.mark-home> <08D6E625-5BE9-4121-A0D8-8B5BDA20A813@van-laarhoven.org>
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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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