On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Marcin Simonides wrote:
> The problem on my FreeBSD 4.8-REL was caused by /dev/null being chmod 600!
My imagination isn't good enough to think of all the weird situations
that might arise. This is one of them...
> if (devnull < 0) devnull = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR);
> if (devnull != i) dup2(devnull, i);
That's clearly bad code. It should check the result of the open() call.
Mea culpa. I'll try to make it more robust.
Philip
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