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lib-master: Make sure stdin/stdout/stderr fds are open.
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We'll just open /dev/null for them if they don't already exist.
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sirainen authored and GitLab committed Nov 14, 2016
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#include "master-service-settings.h"

#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <syslog.h>

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fd_debug_verify_leaks(MASTER_LISTEN_FD_FIRST + count, 1024);
}
#endif
/* Make sure stdin, stdout and stderr fds exist. We especially rely on
stderr being available and a lot of code doesn't like fd being 0.
We'll open /dev/null as write-only also for stdin, since if any
reads are attempted from it we'll want them to fail. */
for (int fd = 0; fd <= 2; fd++) {
struct stat st;

if (fstat(fd, &st) < 0 && errno == EBADF) {
int null_fd = open("/dev/null", O_WRONLY);
if (null_fd == -1)
i_fatal("Can't open /dev/null: %m");
else if (null_fd != fd) {
/* we don't really expect this to happen.
POSIX guarantees that open() returns the
lowest numbered fd. So this would only mean
that fstat() returned EBADF for a fd that
actually existed. */
if (close(null_fd) < 0)
i_error("close(/dev/null) failed: %m");
}
}
}
if ((flags & MASTER_SERVICE_FLAG_STANDALONE) == 0) {
/* make sure we can dump core, at least until
privileges are dropped. (i'm not really sure why this
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