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Diffstat (limited to 'src/exec.cc')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/exec.cc | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/exec.cc b/src/exec.cc index fdfb467cca71..d4ee88f8aaf6 100644 --- a/src/exec.cc +++ b/src/exec.cc @@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ public: }; +static string pathNullDevice = "/dev/null"; + + /* Run a program. */ void runProgram(const string & program, const Strings & args, const Environment & env) @@ -97,6 +100,13 @@ void runProgram(const string & program, if (dup2(STDERR_FILENO, STDOUT_FILENO) == -1) throw SysError("cannot dup stderr into stdout"); + /* Reroute stdin to /dev/null. */ + int fdDevNull = open(pathNullDevice.c_str(), O_RDWR); + if (fdDevNull == -1) + throw SysError(format("cannot open `%1%'") % pathNullDevice); + if (dup2(fdDevNull, STDIN_FILENO) == -1) + throw SysError("cannot dup null device into stdin"); + /* Execute the program. This should not return. */ execve(program.c_str(), (char * *) argArr, (char * *) envArr); |