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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: RFC: close-on-exec internal file descriptors
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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:53:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <m2vcbzui0o.fsf@igel.home> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Tue, 18	Dec 2012 23:12:23 +0100")
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>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

Andreas> I don't think you can use closefrom here.  The debuggee might
Andreas> depend on inherited descriptors, and gdb should be fully
Andreas> transparent here.

I had never heard of anybody doing this.

I'll give it a try.  If it works I suppose we'll need a new plan.
One idea would be to see which file descriptors are open when gdb
starts, and then preserve just those.

Tom