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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/src/lib/process/process_unix.c b/src/lib/process/process_unix.c
index 15ae03eadf..932cdf2e8c 100644
--- a/src/lib/process/process_unix.c
+++ b/src/lib/process/process_unix.c
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ process_unix_exec(process_t *process)
int stdin_pipe[2];
int stdout_pipe[2];
int stderr_pipe[2];
- int retval, fd;
+ int retval;
unix_process = process_get_unix_process(process);
@@ -240,11 +240,9 @@ process_unix_exec(process_t *process)
close(stdin_pipe[0]);
close(stdin_pipe[1]);
- /* Close all other fds, including the read end of the pipe. XXX: We should
- * now be doing enough FD_CLOEXEC setting to make this needless.
- */
- for (fd = STDERR_FILENO + 1; fd < max_fd; fd++)
- close(fd);
+ /* Note that we don't close all FDs from here, which we used to do, because
+ * all our open are CLOEXEC. With a very large maximum number of FDs, the
+ * loop was taking a long time: #40990 */
/* Create the argv value for our new process. */
char **argv = process_get_argv(process);