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// Stupid code segment
// Open file. Contents of "source" and "mode" unknown...
fd = open(source, O_RDWR | O_CREAT, mode);
// Don't check success of "open()". Just try to "dup2()" descriptor, regardless
if(dup2(fd, 0) < 0)
// If "dup2()' FAILS, then treat it as SUCCESS and try a second "open()"
fd2 = open(destination, O_RDWR | O_CREAT, mode);
// Do a second "dup2()"
if (dup2(fd2, 1) < 0)
// Only close "fd" if dup2 fails...
close(fd);
// but close fd2 all the time
close (fd2);
Now you OBVIOUSLY know that's not what I meant, don't you?
Please: be a bit more specific about what you're trying to do, and exactly what's going wrong.
And be sure to use "[code]" blocks when you post code segments.
You'll notice that because I didn't specify a "mode" when I created the file, I didn't get any permissions on the resulting file.
More important, you'll noticed that CLOSING a file descriptor allows me to RE-OPEN the SAME descriptor. That's precisely how the shell happens to implement redirection with the "<" and ">" operators.
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