On 12/11/2007 01:09 PM, Darren Salt wrote: > I demand that Klaus Schmidinger may or may not have written... > > [snip; FD_CLOEXEC] >> Why is this suddenly such a big problem? >> If a plugin wants to run an external program it can simply use >> SystemExec(). > >> Besides, as Darren Salt pointed out, this flag is apparently only available >> in the very latest kernel version, which I'm pretty sure is not that widely >> in use yet. > > Er, no: FD_CLOEXEC has been available for years (see fcntl(2)). You're > confusing it with O_CLOEXEC, which is new. Oh, sorry. Nevertheless, SystemExec() (or something similar) is what a plugin should use when launching an external program. Klaus _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
