From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:33:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] be paranoid about closed stdin/stdout/stderr
Message-ID: <48B44C61.2020206@gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vsksrad7o.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:
> 
>> Paolo Bonzini schrieb:
>>> +	/*
>>> +	 * Always open file descriptors 0/1/2 to avoid clobbering files
>>> +	 * in die().  It also avoids not messing up when the pipes are
>>> +	 * dup'ed onto stdin/stdout/stderr in the child processes we spawn.
>>> +	 */
>> I see your point, but I don't have an opinion whether this stretch is
>> necessary.
> 
> This is going too far.  Have you seen any other sane program that do this?

Busybox.  But it runs setuid, as Steven pointed out.

I say it's all (i.e. be this paranoid), or nothing.

Paolo