Re: fixing debconf stdin bug

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Blars Blarson wrote:
> Joey Hess beleives that this patch will cause problems for postinst
> scripts that don't do db_stop before starting a daemon.  There appear

Any "daemon" that does NOT close all fds on startup is buggy (unless it is
in debug mode, or it is not a normal daemon to begin with).

Unfortunately, the only way AFAIK to do so is to do a { for all descriptors
in (insert arbitrary range here, I use 255): close it ignoring errors }
loop.  Icky at best :(

I wish daemon() would do this.  Stupid do-it-halfway function... 

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  Henrique Holschuh