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23.0.60; OSX: make-network-process reuses existing file descriptors

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From: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>
To: Markus Triska <markus.triska <at> gmx.at>, 569 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#569: 23.0.60;	OSX: make-network-process reuses existing file descriptors
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:49:59 +0900

>>>>> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:22:25 +0200, Markus Triska <markus.triska <at> gmx.at> said:

>> This is because p2 and p3 are both created with infd=outfd=0, thus
>> closing the channel for p2 also closes that of p3.

> Commenting out a res_init call in process.c makes this go away for
> me. I do not know what other consequences this has though:

You can comment it out on Mac OS X, because calling `res_init' does
not make sense at all on that platform.  Neither does linking
libresolv.

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-11/msg01467.html
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg01254.html

So, it turns out to be not only meaningless, but also harmful on a
particular version (10.4) of Mac OS X.

				     YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
				mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp

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