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Open long-lived data and WAL file descriptors with O_CLOEXEC. This flag was introduced by SUSv4 (POSIX.1-2008), and by now all of our target Unix systems have it. Our open() implementation for Windows already had that behavior, so provide a dummy O_CLOEXEC flag on that platform. For now, callers of open() and the "thin" wrappers in fd.c that deal in raw descriptors need to pass in O_CLOEXEC explicitly if desired. This commit does that for WAL files, and automatically for everything accessed via VFDs including SMgrRelation and BufFile. (With more discussion we might decide to turn it on automatically for the thin open()-wrappers too to avoid risk of missing places that need it, but these are typically used for short-lived descriptors where we don't expect to fork/exec, and it's remotely possible that extensions could be using these APIs and passing descriptors to subprograms deliberately, so that hasn't been done here.) Do the same for sockets and the postmaster pipe with FD_CLOEXEC. (Later commits might use modern interfaces to remove these extra fcntl() calls and more where possible, but we'll need them as a fallback for a couple of systems, so do it that way in this initial commit.) With this change, subprograms executed for archiving, copying etc will no longer have access to the server's descriptors, other than the ones that we decide to pass down. Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (earlier version) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKb6FsAdQWcRL35KJsftv%2B9zXqQbzwkfRf1i0J2e57%2BhQ%40mail.gmail.com
PostgreSQL Database Management System ===================================== This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system. PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings. PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here: https://www.postgresql.org/download/ See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install PostgreSQL. That file also lists supported operating systems and hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL system. Copyright and license information can be found in the file COPYRIGHT. A comprehensive documentation set is included in this distribution; it can be read as described in the installation instructions. The latest version of this software may be obtained at https://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information look at our web site located at https://www.postgresql.org/.