Fixing KDE debug dialog and Dr Konqui to run on OS X

[Clemens Lang]

Hi Ian

On June 16, 2014 5:57:36 AM CEST, Ian Wadham <iandw.au at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 16/06/2014, at 1:38 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
>>  The normal time you need such code is after a fork() and before
>exec() to avoid leaking file descriptors to a child that won't know
>they're even there.
>
>Something like that happens in later KDE crash-processing code, which
>starts Dr Konqi (the crash-processing dialog app), but I have not
>looked at
>it in detail yet.  It first tries to get a third party (kdeinit) to
>start Dr Konqi.
>This is preferred (the comments say) because it avoids inheriting
>possibly
>corrupted data.  But if that fails, it forks and starts Dr Konqi as a
>child.

If you need the file descriptors closed after the fork you can set the close on exec flag instead of closing them. I hear that won't bother libdispatch.
-- 
Clemens Lang