Re: [PATCH] nextfd(2)

[KOSAKI Motohiro]

(4/4/12 4:51 AM), Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 19:56, H. Peter Anvin<hpa@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > You can deal with this in one of two ways:
> >
> > 2. Fix your malloc().
> > 1. Use the low level open()/getdents()/close() functions instead of
> >    opendir()/readdir()/closedir().
>
> And if their is concern about using opendir() then we can add
> something to posix_spawn.  And attribute like POSIX_SPAWN_CLOSEALL and
> you then would have to explicitly add dup and open requests for the
> descriptors you want to have open.

As far as I understand, any major open source project don't use posix_spawn().
Please remind, I'm talking about real world issue.

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