> The update to osSupport_Windows.cpp looks okay. I think it would be > useful to discuss the osSupport_unix.cpp change further as the > childproc code is supported to close the file descriptors.
childproc code uses some dark magic to figure which files to close. At the moment, closeDescriptors() will close all files which has descriptors bigger then from_fd (4). However, jimage ends up having descriptor 3, so it's not closed. On the other hand, childproc expects descriptor 3 to be occupied by a pipe to parent (FAIL_FILENO). This means that currently, dark magic is already broken. The only reason for jimage to not go into child process is being mistaken with FAIL_FILENO.
One way of fixing bug in childproc could be increasing FAIL_FILENO to match its actual value of file descriptor. This way, jimage will no longer be mistaken with FAIL_FILENO and therefore, it will NOT be closed.
With all this in mind, I believe it wouldn't hurt to explicitly say that jimage must not be inherited, without relying on current implementation of childproc. That makes a sturdy and clean code.
When this patch is accepted, I can also work on fixing bugs in childproc, if that is considered worthy.
