#1780: runInteractiveProcess broken with >2 processes on POSIX
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Reporter: guest | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.8.3
Component: libraries/process | Version: 6.6.1
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Difficulty: Unknown
Testcase: | Architecture: Multiple
Os: Multiple |
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Changes (by Baughn):
* cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (added)
* os: Linux => Multiple
* architecture: x86 => Multiple
Comment:
A C programmer would be able to close any/all FDs between forking and
execing; here, with the two operations folded into one, *not* closing FDs
by default becomes an unavoidable security hole as well as everything
else.
I'd argue that not closing them violates the principle of having security
by default - anyone who cares about FDs will know to mark them as not-
automatically-closed; anyone who doesn't will likely be very surprised
when a subprocess uses one they left over to overwrite their database,
even by accident.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1780#comment:8>
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