On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 08:43:33PM +0300, eugeny gladkih wrote: > well, but what is used for stdout if it's closed in the parent > process just before fork(2) call?! If I recall correctly, setuid and setgid programs with closed stdin, stdout or stderr will open /dev/null during exec. This fix was added to AIX back in 1999 or so. -- Troy Bollinger <troy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Network Security Analyst PGP keyid: 1024/0xB7783129 Troy's opinions are not IBM policy