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On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 11:20:58AM +0530, Srinivas G. wrote:
> /* second child continues here */
>
> /* change the current working directory to root directory */
> chdir("/");
>
> /* clearing the file mode creation mask to 0 */
> umask(0);
>
You forgot:
close(0);
close(1);
close(2);
> /* undefined file descriptor should be closed */
> fileDesc=open("/dev/null",O_RDWR); /* stdin */
>
> (void) dup(fileDesc); /* stdout */
>
> (void) dup(fileDesc); /* stderr */
Without the three close()s the above three lines will not work as
expected.
Erik
- --
They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll
eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery
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