[fpc-devel] Re: inheriting handles using TProcess in unix

[Seth Grover]

>> I'm contemplating patching TProcess so that if FInheritHandles
>> is false (default is true) it would do this.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> By all means, go ahead. I didn't know there was a way to enumerate all file
> descriptors.
>
> Michael.
>

My current thought is to use FindFirst/FindNext in the context of the
child process after the fork but before the exec to enumerate the
contents of /proc/[pid]/fd/ and close all the descriptors greater than
2. I don't have experience in all different flavors of UNIX, but from
what I've read procfs is standard in UNIX.

-SG

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