Re: debugging guile runtime

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-[ Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 05:55:22PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès ]----
> Like in C, it???s up to the application to close those ports that it
> considers worth closing upon exec.

I was under the impression that the idiom was to close all files before
execing a coprocess, but I just checked POSIX popen, R.Stevens and libslack
and none does that. Well, the lib I'm used to does that and it felt
natural to do so that I erroneously assumed it was a mandated behavior
(so that running a coprocess is similar to running a program from a
shell).

OK then, so it's not a bug and I have to live with this behavior
(BTW, if anyone knows the rational behind this, I would be glad to
know).

> If what you want is to close every FD from 3 to ???, then the typical way
> to do this is to loop over those numbers and call close(2) (that???s how
> libdaemon and similar tools do that.)

Except that, as previously discussed in another thread, there is no easy
way to do that between the fork and the exec (since I don't want to
actually close these files in the main program that starts the pipe).

Anyway, what about the other bugs?
Is there anything I could do to advance the thread-safety issue for instance?