[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/5] qemu-nbd: Do not close stderr

[Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>]

We kept old_stderr specifically so we could keep emitting error message
on stderr.  However, qemu_daemon() closes stderr.  Therefore, we need to
dup() stderr to old_stderr before invoking qemu_daemon().

Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
---
 qemu-nbd.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/qemu-nbd.c b/qemu-nbd.c
index 4866042160..62c547a363 100644
--- a/qemu-nbd.c
+++ b/qemu-nbd.c
@@ -1015,10 +1015,11 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
             exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
         } else if (pid == 0) {
             close(stderr_fd[0]);
+
+            old_stderr = dup(STDERR_FILENO);
             ret = qemu_daemon(1, 0);
 
             /* Temporarily redirect stderr to the parent's pipe...  */
-            old_stderr = dup(STDERR_FILENO);
             dup2(stderr_fd[1], STDERR_FILENO);
             if (ret < 0) {
                 error_report("Failed to daemonize: %s", strerror(errno));
-- 
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