/* Invoke dup, but avoid some glitches. Copyright (C) 2001, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ /* Written by Paul Eggert. */ #if HAVE_CONFIG_H # include #endif #include #if HAVE_FCNTL_H # include #endif #if HAVE_UNISTD_H # include #endif #ifndef STDERR_FILENO # define STDERR_FILENO 2 #endif #include /* Like dup, but do not return STDIN_FILENO, STDOUT_FILENO, or STDERR_FILENO. */ int dup_safer (int fd) { #ifdef F_DUPFD return fcntl (fd, F_DUPFD, STDERR_FILENO + 1); #else int f = dup (fd); if (0 <= f && f <= STDERR_FILENO) { int f1 = dup_safer (f); int e = errno; close (f); errno = e; f = f1; } return f; #endif }