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| author | Robin Gareus <robin@gareus.org> | 2019-03-05 19:11:10 +0100 |
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| committer | Robin Gareus <robin@gareus.org> | 2019-03-05 22:52:53 +0100 |
| commit | 8b5437301b8510339cce87c0c11c1dc9ec8d92a4 (patch) | |
| tree | b3e355d3b7aac841247c3ee2e4d81eeca463d7be /libs/pbd | |
| parent | a390d8d3ca9f6e080b790a4d40f1687b498b1ed3 (diff) | |
Close stderr of child processes on MacOS
This fixes a bug on some modern mac systems. Related to
setup_logging() changing stderr to use ASL and write to com.apple.console.
When a forked application writes to stderr while ASL is used,
the child is terminated for some reason.
Diffstat (limited to 'libs/pbd')
| -rw-r--r-- | libs/pbd/system_exec.cc | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libs/pbd/system_exec.cc b/libs/pbd/system_exec.cc index 23f808a0c3..6be62ef8ef 100644 --- a/libs/pbd/system_exec.cc +++ b/libs/pbd/system_exec.cc @@ -897,8 +897,11 @@ SystemExec::start (StdErrMode stderr_mode, const char *vfork_exec_wrapper) } else if (stderr_mode == IgnoreAndClose) { /* ignore STDERR */ ::close(STDERR_FILENO); - } else { + } else { /* stderr_mode == ShareWithParent */ /* keep STDERR */ +#if defined __APPLE__&& defined ASL_LOG_DESCRIPTOR_WRITE + ::close(STDERR_FILENO); +#endif } if (pout[1] != STDOUT_FILENO && pout[1] != STDERR_FILENO) { |