sshd and file descriptors

Frank Cusack fcusack at fcusack.com
Tue Jul 2 05:48:24 EST 2002


On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 01:38:37PM -0300, Andreas Hasenack wrote:
> > But this isn't really an rpm problem. Daemons should undertake a close
> > of all open file descriptors. No if's, and's or but's.

It is an rpm problem.  Why should every daemon have to play fixup for rpm?
You might have old old daemons you don't have source for, I guess you
have to wrapper those?

I'm not saying daemon's shouldn't close open fd's, but that doesn't
exonerate rpm.

/fc



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