From 0d7c1e66ffad14f76fbd226d50113a61c738806c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 22:39:51 -0700 Subject: * process.c (allocate_pty) [PTY_OPEN]: Set fd's FD_CLOEXEC flag. We can't portably rely on PTY_OPEN doing that, even if it calls posix_openpt with O_CLOEXEC. --- src/process.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'src/process.c') diff --git a/src/process.c b/src/process.c index c4dd87a6b48..349ec26534b 100644 --- a/src/process.c +++ b/src/process.c @@ -687,6 +687,15 @@ allocate_pty (char pty_name[PTY_NAME_SIZE]) if (fd >= 0) { +#ifdef PTY_OPEN + /* Set FD's close-on-exec flag. This is needed even if + PT_OPEN calls posix_openpt with O_CLOEXEC, since POSIX + doesn't require support for that combination. + Multithreaded platforms where posix_openpt ignores + O_CLOEXEC (or where PTY_OPEN doesn't call posix_openpt) + have a race condition between the PTY_OPEN and here. */ + fcntl (fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC); +#endif /* check to make certain that both sides are available this avoids a nasty yet stupid bug in rlogins */ #ifdef PTY_TTY_NAME_SPRINTF -- cgit v1.2.1