java/162522: OpenJDK 6 is not setting close on exec

[Jung-uk Kim]

On Sunday 13 November 2011 11:06 am, Stephen Sanders wrote:
> It appears that OpenJDK does not set close on exec for file handles
> where Diablo did.
>
> If a process attempts to restart itself via fork/exec without
> closing all file handles first, it's child will fail with
> complaints of 'socket in use'.  Of course, this depends on what the
> child is doing.  Probably the best example is tomcat calling a
> shell script that restarts tomcat.

This problem should have been fixed in b21_1.  However, it requires 
fdescfs(5) as described in pkg-message.  Please check your 
configurations.

Jung-uk Kim