Commit 46cfc3ad authored by Rusty Russell's avatar Rusty Russell

pipecmd: close fds in child.

This is usually what you want; I didn't even add a flag to stop it.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
parent b98c6847
......@@ -137,6 +137,13 @@ pid_t pipecmdarr(int *fd_tochild, int *fd_fromchild, int *fd_errfromchild,
goto child_errno_fail;
close(errfromchild[1]);
}
/* Make (fairly!) sure all other fds are closed. */
int max = sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX);
for (int i = 3; i < max; i++)
if (i != execfail[1])
close(i);
execvp(arr[0], arr);
child_errno_fail:
......
......@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@
* If @errfd == @outfd (and non-NULL) they will be shared.
* If @infd, @outfd or @errfd is &pipecmd_preserve, it is unchanged.
*
* The return value is the pid of the child, or -1.
* The return value is the pid of the child, or -1. All other file-descriptors
* are closed in the child.
*/
pid_t pipecmd(int *infd, int *outfd, int *errfd, const char *cmd, ...);
......
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