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+// Copyright 2014 The Crashpad Authors. All rights reserved. |
+// |
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); |
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. |
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at |
+// |
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 |
+// |
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software |
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, |
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. |
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and |
+// limitations under the License. |
+ |
+#ifndef CRASHPAD_UTIL_POSIX_CLOSE_STDIO_H_ |
+#define CRASHPAD_UTIL_POSIX_CLOSE_STDIO_H_ |
+ |
+namespace crashpad { |
+ |
+//! \brief Closes `stdin` and `stdout` by opening `/dev/null` over them. |
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+//! |
+//! It is normally inadvisable to `close()` the three standard input/output |
+//! streams, because they occupy special file descriptors. Closing them outright |
+//! could result in their file descriptors being reused. This causes problems |
+//! for library code (including the standard library) that expects these file |
+//! descriptors to have special meaning. |
+//! |
+//! This function discards the standard input and standard output streams by |
+//! opening `/dev/null` and assigning it to their file descriptors, closing |
+//! whatever had been at those file descriptors previously. |
+//! |
+//! `stderr`, the standard error stream, is not closed. It is often useful to |
+//! retain the ability to send diagnostic messages to the standard error stream. |
+void CloseStdinAndStdout(); |
+ |
+} // namespace crashpad |
+ |
+#endif // CRASHPAD_UTIL_POSIX_CLOSE_STDIO_H_ |