Re: [Patch] libfetch - closing the cached FTP connection

From: Mark Johnston <markjdb_at_gmail.com> Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 14:59:58 -0400 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:40:08 UTC

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