Open /dev/null for write

Open /dev/null for write instead of read for redirecting stdout and
stderr

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7b202dd5665005a050837d23867c2ce96ca6787e..b6bcda36280f8e0ceb93d3114dd99d22edb8ada7 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
        * Fix check for read-only fs in mtab update
 
+       * Open /dev/null for write instead of read for redirecting stdout
+       and stderr
+
 2010-10-14  Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
 
        * Use LTLIBICONV when linking libfuse.  This fixes building against

diff --git a/lib/mount_util.c b/lib/mount_util.c
index dbf92197271dff5f3160c87c1bbe9ed23501582d..25b7e436906252b307fe34186e999b6e56f85622 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/mount_util.c
+++ b/lib/mount_util.c
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ static int add_mount(const char *progname, const char *fsname,
                 * Hide output, because old versions don't support
                 * --no-canonicalize
                 */
-               int fd = open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY);
+               int fd = open("/dev/null", O_WRONLY);
                dup2(fd, 1);
                dup2(fd, 2);