libthread: use devdup instead of mounting pipe to /mnt/temp for close-on-exec in procexec()

the namespace might be shared by other processes. instead, we
create a anonymous pipe with pipe() and use devdup to open one
end close-on-exec. this is shorter and avoids the race condition.

do not touch Execargs after writing the error message as the
process might be gone after the write. this was to manually
close the fd which isnt neccesary as the kernel will do it
for us on the following exit.

3 files changed, 6 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/sys/man/2/thread b/sys/man/2/thread
index b06e31b96..3b93eef9e 100644
--- a/sys/man/2/thread
+++ b/sys/man/2/thread
@@ -356,11 +356,6 @@ can safely free it once they have
 received the
 .I cpid
 response.
-Note that the mount point
-.B /mnt/temp
-must exist;
-.I procexec(l)
-mount pipes there.
 .PP
 .I Threadwaitchan
 returns a channel of pointers to
diff --git a/sys/src/libthread/exec.c b/sys/src/libthread/exec.c
index b93eeb28f..3bfbda3c6 100644
--- a/sys/src/libthread/exec.c
+++ b/sys/src/libthread/exec.c
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 #include <thread.h>
 #include "threadimpl.h"
 
-#define PIPEMNT	"/mnt/temp"
-
 void
 procexec(Channel *pidc, char *prog, char *args[])
 {
@@ -36,18 +34,16 @@ procexec(Channel *pidc, char *prog, char *args[])
 	 * then the proc doing the exec sends the errstr down the
 	 * pipe to us.
 	 */
-	if(bind("#|", PIPEMNT, MREPL) < 0)
-		goto Bad;
-	if((p->exec.fd[0] = open(PIPEMNT "/data", OREAD)) < 0){
-		unmount(nil, PIPEMNT);
+	if(pipe(p->exec.fd) < 0)
 		goto Bad;
-	}
-	if((p->exec.fd[1] = open(PIPEMNT "/data1", OWRITE|OCEXEC)) < 0){
+	snprint(p->exitstr, ERRMAX, "/fd/%d", p->exec.fd[1]);
+	if((n = open(p->exitstr, OWRITE|OCEXEC)) < 0){
 		close(p->exec.fd[0]);
-		unmount(nil, PIPEMNT);
+		close(p->exec.fd[1]);
 		goto Bad;
 	}
-	unmount(nil, PIPEMNT);
+	close(p->exec.fd[1]);
+	p->exec.fd[1] = n;
 
 	/* exec in parallel via the scheduler */
 	assert(p->needexec==0);
diff --git a/sys/src/libthread/main.c b/sys/src/libthread/main.c
index 03c069c14..708b65ed1 100644
--- a/sys/src/libthread/main.c
+++ b/sys/src/libthread/main.c
@@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ efork(Execargs *e)
 	if(buf[0]=='\0')
 		strcpy(buf, "exec failed");
 	write(e->fd[1], buf, strlen(buf));
-	close(e->fd[1]);
 	_exits(buf);
 }