Hi!
> bird needs something like this because in case it daemonizes it still
> keeps the fds open of the controlling tty which is bad in case you'd
> like to log out which then will hang.
This is definitely worth fixing, but I think that closing all possible
fd's is an overkill, especially as getdtablesize() can return an arbitrarily
high number if the ulimit on the number of fd's is unset.
Here is the patch I applied.
diff -u -p -r1.56 main.c
--- sysdep/unix/main.c 6 Jun 2004 17:05:25 -0000 1.56
+++ sysdep/unix/main.c 20 Jun 2007 07:32:04 -0000
@@ -435,6 +435,11 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
if (pid)
return 0;
setsid();
+ close(0);
+ if (open("/dev/null", O_RDWR) < 0)
+ die("Cannot open /dev/null: %m");
+ dup2(0, 1);
+ dup2(0, 2);
}
signal_init();
Thanks for your bug report
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Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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