Unfortunately, devfs on FreeBSD (accessible via /dev/fd) exposes
only those FDs which can be represented as a file. To cite
manpage [1]:
The files /dev/fd/0 through /dev/fd/# refer to file descriptors
which can be accessed through the file system.
This means FDs representing pipes and/or unnamed sockets are not
visible by default. To expose all FDs a slightly different
filesystem must be mounted [2]:
mount -t fdescfs none /dev/fd
Apparently, on my test machine fdescfs is mounted by default and
thus I haven't seen any problem. Only after aforementioned patch
was merged our CI started reporting problems. While we could try
to figure out whether correct FS is mounted, it's a needless
micro optimization. Just revert the code to the state it was
before I touched it.
1:
https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fd&sektion=4&manpath=fr...
2:
https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fdescfs&sektion=5&n=1
This reverts commit 308ec0fb2c77f4867179f00c628f05d1d784f370.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn(a)redhat.com>
---
src/util/vircommand.c | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/util/vircommand.c b/src/util/vircommand.c
index 969d4c28ef..ea52acfbb8 100644
--- a/src/util/vircommand.c
+++ b/src/util/vircommand.c
@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ virExecCommon(virCommand *cmd, gid_t *groups, int ngroups)
return 0;
}
-# if defined(__linux__) || defined(__APPLE__) || defined(__FreeBSD__)
+# ifdef __linux__
static int
virCommandMassCloseGetFDsDir(virBitmap *fds,
const char *dirName)
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ virCommandMassCloseGetFDsDir(virBitmap *fds,
return 0;
}
-# endif /* defined(__linux__) || defined(__APPLE__) || defined(__FreeBSD__) */
+# endif /* __linux__ */
static int
virCommandMassCloseGetFDs(virBitmap *fds)
@@ -513,8 +513,6 @@ virCommandMassCloseGetFDs(virBitmap *fds)
* onto child process (well, the one we will exec soon since this
* is called from the child). */
return virCommandMassCloseGetFDsDir(fds, "/proc/self/fd");
-# elif defined(__APPLE__) || defined(__FreeBSD__)
- return virCommandMassCloseGetFDsDir(fds, "/dev/fd");
# else
virBitmapSetAll(fds);
return 0;
--
2.44.2