> *Lots* of applications make use of POSIX semantics for fork() / exec().
This doesn't mean much. We're talking about inheritance of FDs > 2 upon exec, which is a very limited subset of "POSIX semantics for fork() / exec()". I personally think that there's been enough feedback to show that we should stick with the default POSIX behavior, however broken it is... > Can someone please point to a writeop of the security issues involved? I've posted sample codes earlier in this thread, but here's a writeup by Ulrich Drepper: http://udrepper.livejournal.com/20407.html _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
