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Simple C shim to reproduce issues caused by non-blocking STDIO
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#include <fcntl.h> | |
#include <stdio.h> | |
#include <stdlib.h> | |
#include <unistd.h> | |
void make_nonblocking(int fd) { | |
int flags = fcntl(fd, F_GETFL, 0); | |
if (flags == -1) { | |
perror("fcntl(F_GETFL)"); | |
exit(1); | |
} | |
if (fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, flags | O_NONBLOCK) == -1) { | |
perror("fcntl(F_SETFL)"); | |
exit(1); | |
} | |
} | |
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { | |
if (argc < 2) { | |
fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s <program> [args...]\n", argv[0]); | |
exit(1); | |
} | |
make_nonblocking(STDIN_FILENO); | |
make_nonblocking(STDOUT_FILENO); | |
make_nonblocking(STDERR_FILENO); | |
execvp(argv[1], &argv[1]); | |
// execvp only returns on error | |
perror("execvp"); | |
exit(1); | |
return 0; // Should not be reached | |
} |
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