Re: [Patch] PR 31228, Fix close-on-exec race.

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

David Daney wrote:

> It is not a regression.  The bug is a race condition for which there is
> no evidence that it has ever actually caused undesirable behavior or
> even occurred.  It is however a potential security hole in libgcj.

Security issues are a big deal; go ahead and apply the patch.

> If this were a patch for a Primary GCC language, it might not be
> suitable 4.2 at this point.  However, the libgcj maintainers  sometimes
> like to fix problems even at this late stage.

Yes, but that's something which we should be avoiding.  Fortran and Java
are both grown-up now, and have significant userbases; all the same
considerations which apply to C and C++ apply to them as well, at this
point.

Thanks,

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