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| -rw-r--r-- | shell.c | 13 |
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@@ -56,6 +56,19 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) { char *prog; struct commands *cmd; + int devnull_fd; + + /* + * Always open file descriptors 0/1/2 to avoid clobbering files + * in die(). It also avoids not messing up when the pipes are + * dup'ed onto stdin/stdout/stderr in the child processes we spawn. + */ + devnull_fd = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR); + while (devnull_fd >= 0 && devnull_fd <= 2) + devnull_fd = dup(devnull_fd); + if (devnull_fd == -1) + die("opening /dev/null failed (%s)", strerror(errno)); + close (devnull_fd); /* * Special hack to pretend to be a CVS server |