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I have coded up the standard sendfd() and recvfd() for linux to send and recv file descriptors. seems to work (http://book.chinaunix.net/special/ebook/addisonWesley/APUE2/0201433079/ch17lev1sec4.html) however when I recvfd() my number of open file descriptors bumps by 2 and not 1. (using lsof -p X | wc -l) I am not sure why the count jumps by...

Hello, I just ran upon this problem and couldn't find it in bugzilla. SSH crashes (abort trap) if all of the following conditions are met: (a) option -f is used (crash happens when going to background), (b) reverse port forwarding is set up (option -R), (c) option ExitOnForwardFailure is enabled, (d) there are no actual port-forwarding failures. The problem can be reproduced by

Hi, I've seen a few patches related to the PrivSep works. As far as I can see, it seems to work by using a shared memory segment to communicate. I just want to point out that there are some unix systems that do not have mmap() (SCO, older SVR3 systems) or that might have problems with anonymous shared mmap() (don't have an examples, but e.g. the INN docs are full of warnings concerning