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[PATCH 0/2] Fix spawning a child not setting standard fds properly

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz>
Cc: 52835 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Timothy Sample <samplet <at> ngyro.com>
Subject: bug#52835: [PATCH 0/2] Fix spawning a child not setting standard fds properly
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:53:26 +0100

Hi Josselin,

Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz> skribis:

> Here is hopefully the last reroll of this patchset.  First of all, I did not
> include the gnulib patch again because it still applies cleanly and it is
> extremely large, but it should be applied before those 3 patches.

Yay!

> The first two patches should be applied on the current major release, while the
> third one should be applied on the next major release to finish the migration to
> spawn.

I pushed it to ‘wip-posix-spawn’ along with fixups I’m proposing, mostly
along the lines of what I suggested in
<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/52835#18>:

  • Avoiding the extra ‘fork’ in ‘system*’ upon error;

  • Keep ‘scm_spawn_process’ internal.

I also added Andrew Whatson’s patch from
<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/59321>.

If that’s fine with you, I can squash the “fixup!” commits and merge the
branch.  Let me know!

Earlier we agreed it’d be nice to expose ‘spawn*’/‘primitive-spawn’.  I
still think it’s a good idea, but the interface would need some work IMO
to be more generally useful.  In essence, we could provide something
similar to ‘fork+exec-command’ in the Shepherd, where one can pass
environment variables, stdin/stdout/stderr, etc., all that with keyword
arguments and reasonable defaults.

It’s a bit of extra work though so we can discuss that later,
separately.

Thank you!

Ludo’.

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