"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Of course the same argument can be said for fd 0; if the parent does > close(0) before some other open/socket/pipe call then its obviously > possible for the parent to get a fd that it wants the child to take > over and close. > > We're basically assuming that the parent will always keep its > own stdin open if it will be spawning children. We all know what > happens when we assume (we double close file descriptors) but I > think its a reasonable safe assumption to be making. Ok, that unwritten assumption was what confused me. We definitely need Documentation/technical/api-*.txt before any more code, don't you agree? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
