Re: [PATCH] posix_spawn: preserve FD flags when processing FAE_OPEN

Corinna Vinschen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.newlib
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jul  8 15:51, Jeremy Drake wrote:
> According to the POSIX documentation, "when the new process image is
> executed, any file descriptor (from this new set) which has its
> FD_CLOEXEC flag set shall be closed (see posix_spawn())."  The "new set"
> is after processing the file actions, so if addopen had the O_CLOEXEC
> flag set the descriptor should be closed after the exec.
> 
> The adddup2 docs, by contrast, specify that the flag should be cleared,
> even if dup2 wouldn't have done so due to the specified file descriptors
> being equal.  Add a comment to that effect.
> 
> Addresses: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/newlib/2025/021968.html
> Fixes: c7c1a1ca1b ("2013-10-01  Petr Hosek  <[email protected]>")
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Drake <[email protected]>
> ---
>  newlib/libc/posix/posix_spawn.c | 14 +++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

LGTM. dup3 would be easier, but I'm not sure we can easily use it from
within newlib, so, go ahead.

Thanks,
Corinna
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