Re: Syslogger tries to write to /dev/null on Windows

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> The open() fails and returns a return code as you would expect. But the
> dup2() call crashes when passed an invalid file descriptor, I just
> tested that with a small test program on Windows.

Ah, thanks Windows :-(

> ! if (fd != -1)
> ! {
> ! dup2(fd, fileno(stdout));
> ! dup2(fd, fileno(stderr));
> ! close(fd);
> ! }

+1 for fixing it like this. It's cleaner anyway.

Is that actually the cause of the original bug report, or is there
another issue yet to solve?

regards, tom lane