- errno = 0;
- if (open ("/dev/null", O_RDWR) != 0) {
- syslog (LOG_ERR, "Error: couldn't connect STDIN to /dev/null: %s",
- strerror (errno));
+ dev_null = open ("/dev/null", O_RDWR);
+ if (dev_null == -1) {
+ syslog (LOG_ERR, "Error: couldn't open /dev/null: %s", strerror (errno));
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ if (dup2 (dev_null, STDIN_FILENO) == -1) {
+ close (dev_null);
+ syslog (LOG_ERR, "Error: couldn't connect STDIN to /dev/null: %s", strerror (errno));