Re: Checkpassword and FD3 - the problem

"Paul Jarc" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> After the grandchild execs checkpassword, checkpassword will exec the
> next program - qmail-pop3d, or whatever.  That program needs the
> original descriptors 1 and 2 to do its job.  You'll need to save and
> restore both of those, which won't be any easier than saving and
> restoring descriptor 3.

Not if it's just [/usr]/bin/true... but you're right.  In general it's yet
another inellegant solution.

> > This is almost as kludgey as using /bin/sh for redirection or wrapping
> > python in some sort of environment where FD#3 is already open, but at
least
> > it can be done purely in python :)
>
> My wrapper sh script could be rewritten in python easily enough.

I suppose it is.  Maybe I'll do that.  I like the idea of using a wrapper
around checkpassword as opposed to a wrapper around python.  It's too bad I
have to use a wrapper of any kind, though. "Why can't it work right away
without me telling it what to do"