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[PATCH 0/2] Fix spawning a child not setting standard fds properly

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From: Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz>
To: Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz>
Cc: 52835 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52835: [PATCH v2 2/2] Remove unused renumber_file_descriptor
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2021 22:49:59 +0100

* libguile/posix.c (renumber_file_descriptor): Remove it.
---
Sorry for the noise, but I just saw that this patch omitted a closing
*/, here is a fixed version.

 libguile/posix.c | 30 ------------------------------
 1 file changed, 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libguile/posix.c b/libguile/posix.c
index 148ebeb3d..1d9996565 100644
--- a/libguile/posix.c
+++ b/libguile/posix.c
@@ -1279,36 +1279,6 @@ SCM_DEFINE (scm_fork, "primitive-fork", 0, 0, 0,
 #undef FUNC_NAME
 #endif /* HAVE_FORK */
 
-#ifdef HAVE_FORK
-/* 'renumber_file_descriptor' is a helper function for 'start_child'
-   below, and is specialized for that particular environment where it
-   doesn't make sense to report errors via exceptions.  It uses dup(2)
-   to duplicate the file descriptor FD, closes the original FD, and
-   returns the new descriptor.  If dup(2) fails, print an error message
-   to ERR and abort.  */
-static int
-renumber_file_descriptor (int fd, int err)
-{
-  int new_fd;
-
-  do
-    new_fd = dup (fd);
-  while (new_fd == -1 && errno == EINTR);
-
-  if (new_fd == -1)
-    {
-      /* At this point we are in the child process before exec.  We
-         cannot safely raise an exception in this environment.  */
-      const char *msg = strerror (errno);
-      fprintf (fdopen (err, "a"), "start_child: dup failed: %s\n", msg);
-      _exit (127);  /* Use exit status 127, as with other exec errors. */
-    }
-
-  close (fd);
-  return new_fd;
-}
-#endif /* HAVE_FORK */
-
 #ifdef HAVE_FORK
 #define HAVE_START_CHILD 1
 /* Since Guile uses threads, we have to be very careful to avoid calling
-- 
2.34.0

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