2.2 and FreeBSD

[Neal Rigney]

I had noticed this as well, and should have mentioned it in my previous
mail.

I can no longer repeat the problem, so I'm thinking I actually had a bad
build of gcc somehow (the boxes I compile on track -stable very
regularly, so I've seen some bad commits on occasion), as I can no
longer repeat the problem.

On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 21:32, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> > Is anybody running imapd-2.2 on FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE or higher?  I'm
> > having a confusing problem running master.  It closes FDs 0-2, opens
> > them to /dev/null, and then tries to reserver FDs 3 and 4.  No problem
> > there normally, but FreeBSD is returning FDs higher then 3 and 4.  7 and
> > 8 usually.
> > 
> > Any clues?
> 
> This was done to ensure security.  Doing this prevents a suite of
> attacks from setuid programs, iirc.  Check google for more info, but
> this was something that was committed in mid to early september,
> again, iirc.  -sc
> 
> -- 
> Sean Chittenden