[Patch] Fixing the PROCESS_DUP_HANDLE security hole.
Christopher Faylor
cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Fri Dec 3 02:49:00 GMT 2004
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 09:13:11PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>- Non cygwin processes started by cygwin are not shown by ps
> anymore and cannot be killed.
>
>- spawn(P_DETACH) does not work correctly when spawning non-cygwin
> processes.
> This is due to using a pipe to detect process termination.
The above are both unintentional and fixable.
cgf
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