Bug#432986: lvm utilities complain about fds >2

[Ian Jackson]

Package: lvm2
Version: 2.02.06-4

The lvm utilities apparently whinge if they inherit any fds other than
0,1,2.  This is quite unreasonable.  There is nothing wrong with
executing a program with some inherited fd >2 and there are many
reasons why one might want to do so.

If lvm needs to fork off a daemon or some such then fine, it ought to
close them, but it should do so silently.

Ian.

root at lalonde:~# lvs
  LV                VG       Attr   LSize  Origin Snap%  Move Log Copy%
  adt_gutsy_base    glalonde -wi-a-  3.00G
  adt_gutsy_cowdata glalonde -wi-a-  2.50G
  bigscratch        glalonde -wi-a- 10.00G
root at lalonde:~# lvs 3>/dev/null
File descriptor 3 left open
  LV                VG       Attr   LSize  Origin Snap%  Move Log Copy%
  adt_gutsy_base    glalonde -wi-a-  3.00G
  adt_gutsy_cowdata glalonde -wi-a-  2.50G
  bigscratch        glalonde -wi-a- 10.00G
root at lalonde:~# dpkg -s lvm2
Package: lvm2
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 848
Maintainer: Debian LVM Team <pkg-lvm-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.02.06-4
Provides: lvm-binaries
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libdevmapper1.02 (>= 2:1.02.02-2), libncurses5 (>= 5.4-5), libreadline5 (>= 5.2), libselinux1 (>= 1.32), libsepol1 (>= 1.14), lvm-common (>> 1.5.8)
Pre-Depends: debconf (>= 1.4.69) | debconf-2.0
Suggests: dmsetup
Conffiles:
 /etc/lvm/lvm.conf 69799c527604d709cadde015d4d82135
Description: The Linux Logical Volume Manager
 This is LVM2, the rewrite of The Linux Logical Volume Manager.  LVM
 supports enterprise level volume management of disk and disk subsystems
 by grouping arbitrary disks into volume groups. The total capacity of
 volume groups can be allocated to logical volumes, which are accessed as
 regular block devices.
root at lalonde:~#