On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Wesley Craig wrote: > The larger problem is that daemons shouldn't be impacted by libraries > that inappropriately write to stdout or stderr. As such, lmtpd > should have closed stdin, stdout, stderr and reopening them with, > e.g., '/', O_RDONLY. Accepted connections should not use file > descriptors 0, 1, or 2, since those file descriptors are frequently > (mis)used by underlying libraries. This is the fatal error in inetd, > and apparently in cyrus master? Cyrus master has issues with FDs 0,1 and 2 since ancient times. If anything in the code, anywhere, closes them and don't reopen them immediately, something like syslog() or another offender will promptly take them over and cause a lot of ruckus later. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
