http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489019
User [email protected] added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489019#c26 --- Comment #26 from Miguel de Icaza <[email protected]> 2009-04-20 14:12:56 MDT --- I am saying that the patch above is *wrong* and should not be done in the Mono side of things, it should be done by whoever is calling Mono. Every Unix library hardcodes the following POSIX file descriptors for standard output and error: STDIN_FILENO, STDOUT_FILENO and STDERR_FILENO These should never be closed because they interact badly with system libraries. Consider a root C program whose 0, 1 and 2 file descriptors were closed and then proceeds to open, say /etc/resolv.conf and happens to get 2. During this process a library notices something and logs an error to stderr, what we end up with is a corrupt file. Descriptors 0, 1 and 2 should *always* be assigned unless you control entirely the software stack. The fix that was provided by the Mono team is a band-aid, the *correct* fix is for the caller to *NOT* do this in the first place. And I would like the CASA team to actualy fix this problem at the *real* spot instead of asking us to put a workaround for this broken behavior that is breaking *every* Unix practice. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ mono-bugs maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-bugs
