[Boa-devel] tempfile

[Nikos M. <nm...@gn...>]

Hello,
  I've been trying to avoid creating a temporary files for
post data. Since CGIs need to read a descriptor, using anything
except descriptors seemed impossible. A solution I've come over was 
to use pipes, if the data in the post request were less than PIPE_BUF.

I don't think that this is an elegant solution, since pipe
returns 2 descriptors, which seems to be a waste of descriptors,
but a least the temporary file creation is avoided.

A patch is attached (unfortunately this only shows the idea, and
does not cleanly apply since it is over the hydra code base).

A question! Why is the close-on-exec flag is set (to post_data_fd)?
I see that the init_cgi() function closes the filedescriptor before
exec, so what's the need for this?

-- 
Nikos Mavroyanopoulos
Email: nmav at gnutls org