[PATCH] test-skeleton: redirect stderr to stdout

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:07:06AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 16 Jun 2016 08:50, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:48 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > +  fclose (stderr);
> > > +  dup2 (STDOUT_FILENO, STDERR_FILENO);
> > > +  stderr = fdopen (STDERR_FILENO, "w");
> > 
> > Wouldn't the dup2 be sufficient by itself?  And then you don't have to
> > worry about allocation failure in fdopen.
> 
> i don't think there's any guarantee of the stdio handles being sane when
> the fd is changed underneath them.  if the standards say otherwise, or
> we have a guarantee in glibc, then sure.

The file behind fd might change but fd remains the same.
What kind of stdio insanity are you trying to avoid?


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