[sane-devel] [PATCH] Do not accidentally close STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR

[Julien BLACHE]

Nick Andrew <nick at nick-andrew.net> wrote:

Hi,

> When /dev/null is opened it gets the lowest numbered unopened
> file descriptor. If any of the file descriptors 0, 1 or 2 are
> closed when the program starts running, the later close()
> will cause that file descriptor to be closed, which is not
> wanted.

There is no reason why this would happen, so unless you've seen that
actually happening...

JB.

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