Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH libguestfs] guestfish: detect a few more failed syscalls

Jim Meyering wrote: ... Rich noticed that this test is wrong (should test < 0). Thanks! Here's a fixed patch (also made the pipe test for < 0, though there it's not important): From: Jim Meyering <meyering(a)redhat.com&gt; Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:01:07 +0200 Subject: [PATCH libguestfs] guestfish: detect a few more failed syscalls * fish/fish.c (issue_command): Detect/diagnose more failed syscalls. --- fish/fish.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fish/fish.c b/fish/fish.c index 830617b..5b2cf45 100644 --- a/fish/fish.c +++ b/fish/fish.c @@ -750,8 +750,14 @@ issue_command (const char *cmd, char *argv[], const char *pipecmd) if (pipecmd) { int fd[2]; - fflush (stdout); - pipe (fd); + if (fflush (stdout)); { + perror ("failed to flush standard output"); + return -1; + } + if (pipe (fd) < 0) { + perror ("pipe failed"); + return -1; + } pid = fork (); if (pid == -1) { perror ("fork"); @@ -760,7 +766,10 @@ issue_command (const char *cmd, char *argv[], const char *pipecmd) if (pid == 0) { /* Child process. */ close (fd[1]); - dup2 (fd[0], 0); + if (dup2 (fd[0], 0) < 0) { + perror ("dup2 of stdin failed"); + _exit (1); + } r = system (pipecmd); if (r == -1) { @@ -770,9 +779,16 @@ issue_command (const char *cmd, char *argv[], const char *pipecmd) _exit (WEXITSTATUS (r)); } - stdout_saved_fd = dup (1); + if ((stdout_saved_fd = dup (1)) < 0) { + perror ("failed to dup stdout"); + return -1; + } close (fd[0]); - dup2 (fd[1], 1); + if (dup2 (fd[1], 1) < 0) { + perror ("failed to dup stdout"); + close (stdout_saved_fd); + return -1; + } close (fd[1]); } -- 1.6.4.378.g88f2f