Re: Why does close_stdout close stdout and stderr?

[Florian Weimer]

* Paul Eggert:

> Florian Weimer wrote:
>>> You can achieve that "actual close call" using
>>>
>>>    error = close(dup(fileno(stdout)));
>>>
>>> so you don't actually need to "fclose" if you don't want to.
>>> Any 'close' will do, it doesn't have to be the "last close".
>> Hah, thanks for this suggestion!  So something good came out of this
>> thread after all.  The big advantage of this approach is that this will
>> preserve the descriptor and the stream, so that further diagnostics from
>> the process are not suppressed.
>
> That trick won't work if the dup fails.

You can do an fsync in this case.

Thanks,
Florian