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 4fca566b96cbfebf45a2253140ef526f7965e8c3..fb3504beb662faa377099cd2e39eeeef7fb851c6 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-11-08  Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
+
+       * 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 33e66979cc651424ad4fde7beb8436b254a5c2e7..5469c1b9b64b0ebac7e6c523c788dd3d5dc6077c 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/mount_util.c
+++ b/lib/mount_util.c
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ 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);