We do this by maintaining a mask (for each pid) giving the fds to be closed on exec. We wrap functions that close fds so that their close-on-exec bits can be cleared at that point.
This implementation may close the fds even if the execve operation ultimately fails.
This avoids a problem where one of the SIGALRM signals could be delivered after the original SIGALRM handler was restored, which would normally cause the process to terminate.
For now, we just rely on polling in a loop to determine when the child is done. This isn't optimal, but should be OK. If procsend() worked, we could use that in the child to signal the parent. However, procsend() is broken in GNO 2.0.6 -- it seems that it actually tries to invoke the send() call for sockets, but with the wrong arguments, leading to a crash.
* Push/pop environment to make sure it is isolated from our parents and children.
* Make all environment vars (and shell vars) case-insensitive, consistent with GNO's internal handling of environment vars.
* Wrap putenv and unsetenv to make sure they are called with lower-case variable names, which is necessary to maintain consistency between the environ array and the kernel's internal representation of variables.
This should avoid strange behavior due to races when the parent has resumed but the child is still running the exec* code in libc, which mainly manifests itself when running at low speed.
We also change to signaling the child's completion with SIGALRM, and setting an extra alarm in the parent in case the child doesn't actually do it.
Dmake gets confused if you use over-15-character file names, so they needed to be shortened to get it to work. While I was at it, I also switched _ to . in the filenames so they're fully ProDOS compatible.
The shell/hush_test directory (not needed to build the code) still uses ProDOS-incompatible file names.
Stephen Heumann