[PATCH] start-stop-daemon: close extra fds on --background

[Roy Marples]

On Tuesday 01 July 2008 13:03:00 Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > I would expect this to work
> >
> > echo "password" |
> > start-stop-daemon --start --exec /usr/sbin/pppd --background -- plugins
> > passwdfd 0
> >
> > Your patch would break that yes?
>
> It already does not work, if I read code correctly (bb_daemonize() closes
> fds 0,1,2). --
> vda

Curses!

Well, the only place I know of where is needed is for passing a password to 
pppd plugin and the Gentoo specific version of dhclient where it accepts a 
config file via stdin.

Neither use the background argument so it will probably be unaffected.

Thanks

Roy