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| -rw-r--r-- | changes/bug8209 | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/common/util.c | 5 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/changes/bug8209 b/changes/bug8209 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c58923540b --- /dev/null +++ b/changes/bug8209 @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ + o Minor bugfixes: + - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to close + all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually use + _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken. + Fix for bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this + is CID 743383. diff --git a/src/common/util.c b/src/common/util.c index 49353a8ee1..6a69635594 100644 --- a/src/common/util.c +++ b/src/common/util.c @@ -3834,12 +3834,13 @@ tor_spawn_background(const char *const filename, const char **argv, child_state = CHILD_STATE_MAXFD; #ifdef _SC_OPEN_MAX - if (-1 != max_fd) { + if (-1 == max_fd) { max_fd = (int) sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX); - if (max_fd == -1) + if (max_fd == -1) { max_fd = DEFAULT_MAX_FD; log_warn(LD_GENERAL, "Cannot find maximum file descriptor, assuming %d", max_fd); + } } #else max_fd = DEFAULT_MAX_FD; |