From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:39:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 15/15] daemon: opt-out on features that require posix
Message-ID: <20101021203926.GB12685@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikJXaqDH6vJzPna7txssMO67SxmVy_Nvu2SW46W@mail.gmail.com>

Erik Faye-Lund wrote:

> I understand that it might be beneficial in the --detach code-path,
> but how can stdint, stdout or stderr be closed in this code-path?

Maybe "git daemon >&- 2>&-"?

In some situations involving setuid programs, this kind of thing
can be a security problem (since fd 1 is not taken, the first open()
uses that fd, so output intended for stdout goes to that file).