diff -Naur fail2ban-0.8.3/server/filter.py fail2ban-0.8.3.tpg/server/filter.py --- fail2ban-0.8.3/server/filter.py 2008-05-19 21:05:54.000000000 +0000 +++ fail2ban-0.8.3.tpg/server/filter.py 2009-07-26 18:17:04.000000000 +0000 @@ -428,6 +428,7 @@ # is computed and compared to the previous hash of this line. import md5 +import fcntl class FileContainer: @@ -455,6 +456,11 @@ def open(self): self.__handler = open(self.__filename) + + # Set the file descriptor to be FD_CLOEXEC + fd = self.__handler.fileno() + fcntl.fcntl (self.__handler.fileno(), fcntl.F_SETFD, fd | fcntl.FD_CLOEXEC) + firstLine = self.__handler.readline() # Computes the MD5 of the first line. myHash = md5.new(firstLine).digest()