On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 07:45:26PM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > Yep; good point. I'd still want to do the closes first (to avoid the > unnecessary extra failure mode when all fds are in use, as much as is > possible).
But even then: it's better to fail without having changed stdin/out/err than it is to fail with the wrong or no stdin/out/err.
