From:	cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher G. Faylor)
Subject:	Re: Foolproof solution for non-inherit on spawn/exec?
11 Jun 1998 13:59:18 GMT :
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In article <01BD9520 DOT 2EFBD4F0 DOT cygnus DOT cygwin32 DOT developers AT drs>,
Sergey Okhapkin <sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru> wrote:
>Geoffrey Noer wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 09:56:20AM +0400, Sergey Okhapkin wrote:
>> >
>> > I don't like this idea...
>>
>> Could you give more details as to why?  Thanks!
>>
>
>I don't like a duplication of handles in a child's code. This case the 
>child have to OpenProcess(parent). This open may fail due to security 
>reasons after sexec() calls. The second, duplicated sockets fails to 
>connect thru MS winsock proxy server on Windows NT (didn't try on W95).

I don't like these objections.
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