[PATCH 1/3] daemon: handle freopen() failure
- From
René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
- Date
- Dec 26, 2008, 09:46 UTC
- Message-ID
- <1230284785.6728.26.camel@ubuntu.ubuntu-domain>
Die if stderr couldn't be sent to /dev/null when operating in inetd mode and report the error message from the OS.
This fixes a compiler warning about the return value of freopen() being ignored on Ubuntu 8.10.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> --- daemon.c | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/daemon.c b/daemon.c index 1cef309..8c317be 100644 --- a/daemon.c +++ b/daemon.c @@ -1118,7 +1118,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) struct sockaddr *peer = (struct sockaddr *)&ss; socklen_t slen = sizeof(ss); - freopen("/dev/null", "w", stderr); + if (!freopen("/dev/null", "w", stderr)) + die("failed to redirect stderr to /dev/null: %s", + strerror(errno)); if (getpeername(0, peer, &slen)) peer = NULL;
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