Don't open files from /dev/fd/, just return the fd.

Advantage 1: Less file descriptors opened.

Advantage 2: The other end will be alerted when the process
closes the file descriptor, and does not have to wait until
the process exits.

Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/util.c b/src/util.c
index c315010..60e4cb0 100644
--- a/src/util.c
+++ b/src/util.c
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 #include <sys/wait.h>
 #include <ctype.h>
 #include <errno.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
 #include <limits.h>
 #include <signal.h>
 #include <stdarg.h>
@@ -220,3 +221,17 @@ enjoin_jobs(int status, int is_master, pid_t *pids)
 }
 
 /* } */
+
+
+int
+xenopen(int status, const char *path, int flags, int mode, ...)
+{
+	int fd;
+	if (strncmp(path, "/dev/fd/", sizeof("/dev/fd/") - 1))
+		if (!toi(path + sizeof("/dev/fd/") - 1, 0, INT_MAX, &fd))
+			return fd;
+	fd = open(path, flags, mode);
+	if (fd < 0)
+		enprintf(status, "open %s:", path);
+	return fd;
+}