+ // Close all (presumably accidentally) inherited file descriptors to
+ // avoid descriptor leaks. This means that we don't allow inheriting
+ // them purposefully but this seems like a lesser evil in wx code.
+ // Ideally we'd provide some flag to indicate that none (or some?) of
+ // the descriptors do not need to be closed but for now this is better
+ // than never closing them at all as wx code never used FD_CLOEXEC.
+
+ // Note that while the reading side of the end process detection pipe
+ // can be safely closed, we should keep the write one opened, it will
+ // be only closed when the process terminates resulting in a read
+ // notification to the parent
+ const int fdEndProc = execData.pipeEndProcDetect.Detach(wxPipe::Write);
+ execData.pipeEndProcDetect.Close();
+
+ // TODO: Iterating up to FD_SETSIZE is both inefficient (because it may
+ // be quite big) and incorrect (because in principle we could
+ // have more opened descriptions than this number). Unfortunately
+ // there is no good portable solution for closing all descriptors
+ // above a certain threshold but non-portable solutions exist for
+ // most platforms, see [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/899038/
+ // getting-the-highest-allocated-file-descriptor]
+ for ( int fd = 0; fd < (int)FD_SETSIZE; ++fd )
+ {
+ if ( fd != STDIN_FILENO &&
+ fd != STDOUT_FILENO &&
+ fd != STDERR_FILENO &&
+ fd != fdEndProc )
+ {
+ close(fd);
+ }
+ }
+
+
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