From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:16:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] start_command: close cmd->err descriptor when fork/spawn fails
Message-ID: <4BD52FCB.6020902@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <1272244540-5960-1-git-send-email-dvornik+git@gmail.com>

Am 4/26/2010 3:15, schrieb bert Dvornik:
> Fix the problem where the cmd->err passed into start_command wasn't
> being properly closed when certain types of errors occurr.  (Compare
> the affected code with the clean shutdown code later in the function.)

> diff --git a/run-command.c b/run-command.c
> index d1a8ceb..41666ac 100644
> --- a/run-command.c
> +++ b/run-command.c
> @@ -383,6 +383,8 @@ fail_pipe:
>  			close(cmd->out);
>  		if (need_err)
>  			close_pair(fderr);
> +		else if (cmd->err)
> +			close(cmd->err);
>  		errno = failed_errno;
>  		return -1;
>  	}

Good catch! This should go on maint (1.7.0).

Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>

-- Hannes