From 58000d181ca1462799f43da1fb86957b357f319c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:10:39 +0000
Subject: New file.  As yet unused.

---
 lib/stdopen.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 lib/stdopen.c

(limited to 'lib/stdopen.c')

diff --git a/lib/stdopen.c b/lib/stdopen.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6cf521896
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/stdopen.c
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+
+/* Try to ensure that each of the standard file numbers (0, 1, 2)
+   is in use.  Without this, each application would have to guard
+   every call to open, dup, and fopen with tests to ensure they don't
+   use one of the special file numbers when opening a user's file.  */
+void
+stdopen (void)
+{
+  int fd;
+  for (fd = 0; fd <= 2; fd++)
+    {
+      struct stat sb;
+      if (fstat (fd, &sb) < 0)
+	{
+	  static const int flag[] = { O_WRONLY, O_RDONLY, O_RDONLY };
+	  /* FIXME: worry about errno != EBADF?  */
+	  char const *file = "/dev/null";
+	  int fd2 = open (file, flag[fd]);
+	  if (fd2 < 0)
+	    break;
+	  if (fd2 != fd)
+	    {
+	      close (fd2);
+	      break;
+	    }
+	}
+    }
+}
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