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From: Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com>
To: 52835@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: dev@jpoiret.xyz
Subject: bug#52835: [PATCH 0/2] Fix spawning a child not setting standard fds properly
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 10:40:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735mcu4a5.fsf@ngyro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1640638819.git.dev@jpoiret.xyz> (Josselin Poiret via's message of "Mon, 27 Dec 2021 22:25:56 +0100")

Hey Josselin,

Thanks for finding this bug!  I have one concern about your patches:

Josselin Poiret writes:

> The second patch removes renumber_file_descriptor, as it is no longer
> used.

One thing that ‘renumber_file_descriptor’ does that we seem to be losing
here is error checking.  To my eye, the old code will try and warn the
user if they run out of file descriptors, but the new code will not.

The other thing that I like is how ‘renumber_file_descriptor’ checks the
return value of ‘dup’ in addition to checking ‘errno’.  (I realize that
the old code skips that check for ‘dup2’ – I’m kinda just stating a
preference here.)  A quick check of POSIX turns up the following: “the
value of ‘errno’ should only be examined when it is indicated to be
valid by a function’s return value” [1].


-- Tim

[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/





  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-12-28 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-27 21:25 bug#52835: [PATCH 0/2] Fix spawning a child not setting standard fds properly Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2021-12-27 21:35 ` bug#52835: [PATCH 1/2] Fix child spawning closing standard fds prematurely Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2021-12-27 21:35 ` bug#52835: [PATCH 2/2] Remove unused renumber_file_descriptor Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2021-12-27 21:49   ` bug#52835: [PATCH v2 " Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2021-12-28 15:40 ` Timothy Sample [this message]
2021-12-28 17:25   ` bug#52835: [PATCH 0/2] Fix spawning a child not setting standard fds properly Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2022-02-07 16:55     ` bug#52835: [PATCH v3] Fix child spawning closing standard fds prematurely Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2022-05-28 12:46       ` bug#52835: [PATCH v4 0/4] Improve safety of start_child and piped-process Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2022-05-28 12:46         ` bug#52835: [PATCH v4 1/4] Fix child spawning closing standard fds prematurely Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2022-05-28 12:46         ` bug#52835: [PATCH v4 2/4] Avoid double closes in piped-process Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2022-05-28 12:46         ` bug#52835: [PATCH v4 3/4] Remove useless closing code in start_child Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2022-05-28 12:46         ` bug#52835: [PATCH v4 4/4] Make start_child propagate the child errno to the parent Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2022-09-05  6:48         ` bug#52835: [PATCH v5 0/3] Move spawning procedures to posix_spawn Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2022-09-05  6:48           ` bug#52835: [PATCH v5 1/3] Update gnulib to 0.1.5414-8204d and add posix_spawn, posix_spawnp Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2022-09-05  6:48           ` bug#52835: [PATCH v5 2/3] Add spawn* Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2022-09-05  6:48           ` bug#52835: [PATCH v5 3/3] Move popen and posix procedures to spawn* Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2022-11-29 15:05             ` bug#52835: [PATCH 0/2] Fix spawning a child not setting standard fds properly Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-11 20:16               ` Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2022-12-12 23:49                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-22 12:49                   ` bug#52835: [PATCH v6 0/3] Move spawning procedures to posix_spawn Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2022-12-22 12:49                     ` bug#52835: [PATCH v6 1/3] Add spawn* Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2022-12-22 12:49                     ` bug#52835: [PATCH v6 2/3] Make system* and piped-process internally use spawn Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2022-12-22 12:49                     ` bug#52835: [PATCH v6 3/3] Move popen and posix procedures to spawn* Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2022-12-23 10:53                     ` bug#52835: [PATCH 0/2] Fix spawning a child not setting standard fds properly Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-23 17:15                       ` Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2022-12-23 17:17                         ` bug#52835: [PATCH v7 1/2] Add spawn* and spawn Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2022-12-23 17:17                           ` bug#52835: [PATCH v7 2/2] Make system* and piped-process internally use spawn Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2022-12-25 17:04                             ` bug#52835: [PATCH 0/2] Fix spawning a child not setting standard fds properly Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-25 17:03                           ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-25 16:58                         ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-01-07 16:07                           ` Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2023-01-07 16:07                             ` bug#52835: [PATCH v8 1/2] Add spawn Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2023-01-07 16:07                               ` bug#52835: [PATCH v8 2/2] Make system* and piped-process internally use spawn Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2023-01-12 22:02                             ` bug#52835: [PATCH 0/2] Fix spawning a child not setting standard fds properly Ludovic Courtès
2023-01-13  1:11 ` Andrew Whatson via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2023-01-13 15:20   ` Ludovic Courtès

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