Re: Why does close_stdout close stdout and stderr?

[NeilBrown]

On Wed, May 08 2019, Paul Eggert wrote:

> Florian Weimer wrote:
>>> You can achieve that "actual close call" using
>>>
>>>    error = close(dup(fileno(stdout)));
>>>
>>> so you don't actually need to "fclose" if you don't want to.
>>> Any 'close' will do, it doesn't have to be the "last close".
>> Hah, thanks for this suggestion!  So something good came out of this
>> thread after all.  The big advantage of this approach is that this will
>> preserve the descriptor and the stream, so that further diagnostics from
>> the process are not suppressed.
>
> That trick won't work if the dup fails.
>
> Also, I worry that the trick won't port to non-Linux kernels, so it would 
> have 
> to be '#ifdef __linux__' or something like that.

Are there any non-Linux kernels ???

Seriously though, I suspect it would work on any Unix-like kernel.
It certainly doesn't hurt, so there is no need to protect it with the
#ifdef.

NeilBrown

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