[Python-Dev] fork or exec?

[Tres Seaver]

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On 01/10/2013 02:55 PM, Charles-François Natali wrote:

> Indeed, it should be really rare.

*Lots* of applications make use of POSIX semantics for fork() / exec().

> There are far more programs that are bitten by FD inheritance upon 
> exec than programs relying on it, and whereas failures and security 
> issues in the first category are hard to debug and unpredictable 
> (especially in a multi-threaded program),

Can someone please point to a writeop of the security issues involved?



Tres.
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