Allow WASI preopen file descriptors to be closed.#5828
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Early on in WASI, we weren't sure whether we should allow preopens to be closed, so conservatively, we disallowed them. Among other things, this protected assumptions in wasi-libc that it can hold onto preopen file descriptors and rely on them always being open. However now, I think it makes sense to relax this restriction. wasi-libc itself doesn't expose the preopen file descriptors, so users shouldn't ever be closing them naively, unless they have wild closes. And toolchains other than wasi-libc may want to close preopens as a way to drop priveleges once the main file handles are opened.
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This ports the test updates from bytecodealliance/wasmtime#5828 to the preview2-prototype and implements the ability to close preopened file descriptors.
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This ports the test updates from bytecodealliance/wasmtime#5828 to the preview2-prototype and implements the ability to close preopened file descriptors.
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* Allow preopen file descriptors to be closed. This ports the test updates from bytecodealliance/wasmtime#5828 to the preview2-prototype and implements the ability to close preopened file descriptors. * Fix compilation on Windows.
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* Allow preopen file descriptors to be closed. This ports the test updates from bytecodealliance#5828 to the preview2-prototype and implements the ability to close preopened file descriptors. * Fix compilation on Windows.
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Early on in WASI, we weren't sure whether we should allow preopens to be closed, so conservatively, we disallowed them. Among other things, this protected assumptions in wasi-libc that it can hold onto preopen file descriptors and rely on them always being open.
However now, I think it makes sense to relax this restriction. wasi-libc itself doesn't expose the preopen file descriptors, so users shouldn't ever be closing them naively, unless they have wild closes. And toolchains other than wasi-libc may want to close preopens as a way to drop priveleges once the main file handles are opened.