Rethinking race-free process signaling

Posted Apr 9, 2019 19:50 UTC (Tue) by roc (subscriber, #30627)
In reply to: Rethinking race-free process signaling by quotemstr
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Applications that launch a securely sandboxed child process need to do this in the child process before they exec. Leaking a file descriptor across the sandbox boundary would be devastating.