use Cwd qw(abs_path); # core
use POSIX qw(:fcntl_h); # core
use AnyEvent::Handle; # not core
+use AnyEvent::Util; # not core
use Exporter 'import';
use v5.10;
# We are about to exec, but we did not modify $^F to include $socket
# when creating the socket (because the file descriptor could have a
- # number != 3 which would lead to i3 leaking a file descriptor).
- # Therefore, we explicitly have to clear the file descriptor flags now:
+ # number != 3 which would lead to i3 leaking a file descriptor). This
+ # caused Perl to set the FD_CLOEXEC flag, which would close $socket on
+ # exec(), effectively *NOT* passing $socket to the new process.
+ # Therefore, we explicitly clear FD_CLOEXEC (the only flag right now)
+ # by setting the flags to 0.
POSIX::fcntl($socket, F_SETFD, 0) or die "Could not clear fd flags: $!";
# If the socket does not use file descriptor 3 by chance already, we
if (fileno($socket) != 3) {
POSIX::close(3);
POSIX::dup2(fileno($socket), 3);
+ POSIX::close(fileno($socket));
}
+ # Make sure no file descriptors are open. Strangely, I got an open file
+ # descriptor pointing to AnyEvent/Impl/EV.pm when testing.
+ AnyEvent::Util::close_all_fds_except(0, 1, 2, 3);
+
# Construct the command to launch i3. Use maximum debug level, disable
# the interactive signalhandler to make it crash immediately instead.
my $i3cmd = abs_path("../i3") . " -V -d all --disable-signalhandler";