[MESOS-4536] Add abstractions of "owned" and "shared" file descriptors to libprocess.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: libprocess
• Target Version/s: 0.28.0
• Story Points: 3
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Joseph Wu
• Shepherd: Michael Park
• Created: 27/Jan/16 23:07
• Updated: 10/Jan/17 01:02

Description

Libprocess currently manages file descriptors as plain int s. This leads to some easily missed bugs regarding duplicated or closed FDs.

We should introduce an abstraction (like unique_ptr and shared_ptr) so that FD ownership can be expressed alongside the affected code.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: MESOS-3520 Add an abstraction to manage the life cycle of file descriptors.