/* Invoke pipe, but avoid some glitches. Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 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 Jim Meyering. */ #include #include "unistd-safer.h" #include #include /* Like pipe, but ensure that neither of the file descriptors is STDIN_FILENO, STDOUT_FILENO, or STDERR_FILENO. Fail with ENOSYS on platforms that lack pipe. */ int pipe_safer (int fd[2]) { #if HAVE_PIPE if (pipe (fd) == 0) { int i; for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) { fd[i] = fd_safer (fd[i]); if (fd[i] < 0) { int e = errno; close (fd[1 - i]); errno = e; return -1; } } return 0; } #else errno = ENOSYS; #endif return -1; }