[Patch] Fixing the PROCESS_DUP_HANDLE security hole.

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 01:23:59PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>At 01:03 PM 11/14/2004 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 12:34:30PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>>>At 12:11 AM 11/14/2004 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>>>BTW, have you ever tried using select, having a connection from the
>>>parent to the child?
>>
>>select involves polling or setting up other events to track end-of-pipe
>>conditions.  I don't think that's a win.
>
>I meant the Windows select, on sockets.

Use sockets rather than pipes?  Given all of the problems that we have
with sockets, I don't think we want to go down that path.

cgf