--- /dev/null
+/* stdopen.c - ensure that the three standard file descriptors are in use
+
+ Copyright (C) 2005 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., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
+
+/* Written by Paul Eggert and Jim Meyering. */
+
+#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
+# include <config.h>
+#endif
+
+#include "stdopen.h"
+
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+
+/* Try to ensure that all of the standard file numbers (0, 1, 2)
+ are in use. Without this, each application would have to guard
+ every call to open, dup, fopen, etc. with tests to ensure they
+ don't use one of the special file numbers when opening a file.
+ Return false if at least one of the file descriptors is initially
+ closed and an attempt to reopen it fails. Otherwise, return true. */
+bool
+stdopen (void)
+{
+ int fd;
+ bool ok = true;
+
+ for (fd = 0; fd <= 2; fd++)
+ {
+ if (fcntl (fd, F_GETFD) < 0)
+ {
+ if (errno != EBADF)
+ ok = false;
+ else
+ {
+ static const int contrary_mode[]
+ = { O_WRONLY, O_RDONLY, O_RDONLY };
+ int mode = contrary_mode[fd];
+ int new_fd;
+ /* Open /dev/null with the contrary mode so that the typical
+ read (stdin) or write (stdout, stderr) operation will fail.
+ With descriptor 0, we can do even better on systems that
+ have /dev/full, by opening that write-only instead of
+ /dev/null. The only drawback is that a write-provoked
+ failure comes with a misleading errno value, ENOSPC. */
+ if (mode == O_RDONLY
+ || (new_fd = open ("/dev/full", mode) != fd))
+ new_fd = open ("/dev/null", mode);
+ if (new_fd != fd)
+ {
+ if (0 <= new_fd)
+ close (new_fd);
+ ok = false;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
+ return ok;
+}