remove #clean_parent_file_descriptors which is not required now.

2 files changed, 0 insertions, 41 deletions

diff --git a/lib/mixlib/shellout/unix.rb b/lib/mixlib/shellout/unix.rb
index 2456f49..f93d2e5 100644
--- a/lib/mixlib/shellout/unix.rb
+++ b/lib/mixlib/shellout/unix.rb
@@ -211,31 +211,6 @@ module Mixlib
         STDIN.sync = true if input
       end
 
-      # When a new process is started with chef, it shares the file
-      # descriptors of the parent. We clean the file descriptors
-      # coming from the parent to prevent unintended locking if parent
-      # is killed.
-      # NOTE: After some discussions we've decided to iterate on file
-      # descriptors upto 256. We believe this  is a reasonable upper
-      # limit in a chef environment. If we have issues in the future this
-      # number could be made to be configurable or updated based on
-      # the ulimit based on platform.
-      def clean_parent_file_descriptors
-        # Don't clean $stdin, $stdout, $stderr, process_status_pipe.
-        3.upto(256) do |n|
-          # We are checking the fd for error pipe before attempting to
-          # create a file because error pipe will auto close when we
-          # try to create a file since it's set to CLOEXEC.
-          if n != @process_status_pipe.last.to_i
-            begin
-              fd = File.for_fd(n)
-              fd.close if fd
-            rescue
-            end
-          end
-        end
-      end
-
       def configure_parent_process_file_descriptors
         # Close the sides of the pipes we don't care about
         stdin_pipe.first.close
@@ -309,8 +284,6 @@ module Mixlib
 
           configure_subprocess_file_descriptors
 
-          clean_parent_file_descriptors
-
           set_group
           set_user
           set_environment
diff --git a/spec/mixlib/shellout_spec.rb b/spec/mixlib/shellout_spec.rb
index ff493c2..dca66ae 100644
--- a/spec/mixlib/shellout_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/mixlib/shellout_spec.rb
@@ -1318,19 +1318,5 @@ describe Mixlib::ShellOut do
         end
       end
     end
-
-    describe "#clean_parent_file_descriptors", :unix_only do
-      # test for for_fd returning a valid File object, but close
-      # throwing EBADF.
-      it "should not throw an exception if fd.close throws EBADF" do
-        fd = double('File')
-        fd.stub(:close).at_least(:once).and_raise(Errno::EBADF)
-        File.should_receive(:for_fd).at_least(:once).and_return(fd)
-        shellout = Mixlib::ShellOut.new()
-        shellout.instance_variable_set(:@process_status_pipe, [ 98, 99 ])
-        lambda { shellout.send(:clean_parent_file_descriptors) }.should_not raise_error
-      end
-    end
-
   end
 end