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From: Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com>
To: Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz>
Cc: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>,
	"Andrew Whatson" <whatson@tailcall.au>,
	61095@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#61095: possible misuse of posix_spawn API on non-linux OSes
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 19:45:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2KFIQJHFVA0GP.2GKMWUIGIVCMU@venera> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ileirnw7.fsf@jpoiret.xyz>

On 2023/03/30 22:21:28 +0200, Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz> wrote:
> Hi Ludo,
> 
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Coming next is an updated patch series addressing this as proposed
> > above.  Let me know what y’all think!
> >
> > I tested the ‘posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np’ path by building in:
> >
> >   guix time-machine --branch=core-updates -- shell -CP -D -f guix.scm
> 
> I didn't test, but this LGTM!  Maybe someone on OpenBSD could test this
> patchset?

    % gmake check
    <snip />
    gmake[5]: Entering directory '/home/op/w/guile/test-suite/standalone'
    PASS: test-system-cmds

it seems to work on OpenBSD 7.3 :)

but note that our libc doesn't have posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np,
so this is using the "racy" code path.

Just for curiosity, as it's outside the scope of the bug, what's the
reason posix_spawn was used instead of a more classic fork() +
closefrom()?


Thanks,

Omar Polo





  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-31 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-27 11:51 bug#61095: possible misuse of posix_spawn API on non-linux OSes Omar Polo
2023-01-27 12:25 ` Omar Polo
2023-03-28  9:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-03-28 16:10   ` Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2023-03-29 22:30     ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-03-29 22:30       ` bug#61095: [PATCH 1/3] 'spawn' closes only open file descriptors on non-GNU/Linux systems Ludovic Courtès
2023-03-29 22:30         ` bug#61095: [PATCH 2/3] Remove racy optimized file descriptor closing loop in 'spawn' Ludovic Courtès
2023-03-29 22:30         ` bug#61095: [PATCH 3/3] Use 'posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np' where available Ludovic Courtès
2023-03-30 20:21       ` bug#61095: possible misuse of posix_spawn API on non-linux OSes Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2023-03-31 17:45         ` Omar Polo [this message]
2023-04-02 13:44           ` Ludovic Courtès

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