/* stdopen.c - ensure that the three standard file descriptors are in use
Copyright (C) 2005-2006, 2019-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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/* Written by Paul Eggert and Jim Meyering. */
#include
#include "stdopen.h"
#include
#include
#include
#include
/* Try to ensure that all of the standard file numbers (0, 1, 2)
are in use. Without this, each application would have to guard
every call to open, dup, fopen, etc. with tests to ensure they
don't use one of the special file numbers when opening a file.
Return zero if successful, an errno value if at least one of
the file descriptors is initially closed and could not be opened. */
int
stdopen (void)
{
int fd;
for (fd = STDIN_FILENO; fd <= STDERR_FILENO; fd++)
{
if (fcntl (fd, F_GETFD) < 0)
{
/* Open /dev/null with the contrary mode so that the typical
read (stdin) or write (stdout, stderr) operation will fail.
With descriptor 0, we can do even better on systems that
have /dev/full, by opening that write-only instead of
/dev/null. The only drawback is that a write-provoked
failure comes with a misleading errno value, ENOSPC. */
int mode = fd == STDIN_FILENO ? O_WRONLY : O_RDONLY;
int full_fd = fd == STDIN_FILENO ? open ("/dev/full", mode) : -1;
int new_fd = full_fd < 0 ? open ("/dev/null", mode) : full_fd;
if (new_fd < 0)
return errno;
if (STDERR_FILENO < new_fd)
{
/* 0, 1, and 2 are already open somehow.
Our is not to reason why. */
close (new_fd);
return 0;
}
}
}
return 0;
}