From 18e62fd5072c09a084dfd652df98702aa8d313e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miroslav Stampar <miroslav.stampar@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 14:36:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix for an Issue #1240

---
 lib/utils/api.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/utils/api.py b/lib/utils/api.py
index 987391c55..396d689d9 100644
--- a/lib/utils/api.py
+++ b/lib/utils/api.py
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ class Task(object):
 
     def engine_start(self):
         self.process = Popen(["python", "sqlmap.py", "--pickled-options", base64pickle(self.options)],
-                             shell=False, stdin=PIPE, close_fds=False)
+                             shell=False, stdin=PIPE, close_fds=True)
 
     def engine_stop(self):
         if self.process: