/** * slibc — Yet another C library * Copyright © 2015, 2016 Mattias Andrée (m@maandree.se) * * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program. If not, see . */ #include #include #include #include /** * Reopen a file via its file descriptor. The old file descriptor * is closed and replace with the new open file descriptor. * * This function call is different from the `dup` function-family * in two ways: (1) you can select news flags, for example, if * `fd` was read-only, the new file descriptor can be write-only, * and (2) the file descriptor is not duplicated, the file is * reopened. * * This function is useful if you want to reopen a file you do * now know the pathname, you do not want to create a new string * with the pathname, or if the the file no longer has a pathname * because it has been unlinked. * * Because the file is reopened, the file position is reset and * is not shared with any duplicates of `fd`, unlike a call to * dup(3). it is visible to the filesystem as a new open file * descriptor and is distinguished from the duplocates of `fd`, * and all file locks associated with `fd` are lost, except for * on the duplicates of `fd`, which means that you can create * new locks without removing locks from the duplicates of `fd`. * * This is a slibc extension. * * @etymology (Reopen) file! * * @param fd The file descriptor. * @param oflag How the file shall be opened, see open(3). * `O_CREAT` is not allowed. * @return Zero on success, -1 on error. * * @throws EINVAL `oflag` contains `O_CREAT`. * @throws EINVAL `fd` is negative. * @throws Any error specified for open(3). * @throws Any error specified for dup2(3). * * @since Always. */ int reopen(int fd, int oflag) { char path[sizeof("/dev/fd/") + 3 * sizeof(int)]; int r, saved_errno; if ((oflag & O_CREAT) || (fd < 0)) return errno = EINVAL, -1; sprintf(path, "/dev/fd/%i", fd); if (r = open(path, oflag), r < 0) return -1; if (dup2(r, fd) == -1) return saved_errno = errno, close(r), errno = saved_errno, -1; return close(r), 0; }