[563] in SIPB bug reports
Re: xscreensaver doesn't close the X socket when execing programs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jun 1 09:43:18 1989
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 89 09:44:07 EDT
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: John T Kohl's message of Wed, 31 May 89 15:30:45 EDT,
xscreensaver should set close-on-exec on the X socket.
I would claim that the X library should be responsible for doing this
in the name of defensive programming, and have so claimed in bug
reports to the X consortium. After some arguing back and forth, they
are going to consider it.
