Bug#432986: lvm utilities complain about fds >2
Alasdair G Kergon
agk at redhat.com
Fri Jul 13 14:57:22 UTC 2007
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 03:20:10PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> 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.
Do you have any examples?
> If lvm needs to fork off a daemon or some such then fine, it ought to
> close them, but it should do so silently.
The warning has originally added upstream to help prove that a bug
originally reported against lvm2 was actually elsewhere.
The messages can be suppressed at runtime by setting the environment
variable LVM_SUPPRESS_FD_WARNINGS.
Alasdair
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