Fix -inetd not working with xserver >= 1.19
xserver 1.19's OsInit will create a pollfd, followed by checking if fd 2 /
stderr is writable and if it is not, replacing fd 2 with /dev/null.
Since we close stderr in inetd mode to avoid xserver messages being send
to the client as vnc data, the pollfd becomes fd 2, only to be replaced
by /dev/null since a pollfd is not writable.
This commit fixes this by opening /dev/null directly after the close(2),
avoiding that the pollfd becomes fd 2.
Alan Coopersmith: Change to use dup2() for atomic switch of fd
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
diff --git a/unix/xserver/hw/vnc/xvnc.c b/unix/xserver/hw/vnc/xvnc.c
index c5b684d..ef30d69 100644
--- a/unix/xserver/hw/vnc/xvnc.c
+++ b/unix/xserver/hw/vnc/xvnc.c
@@ -572,9 +572,17 @@
if (strcmp(argv[i], "-inetd") == 0)
{
+ int nullfd;
+
dup2(0,3);
vncInetdSock = 3;
- close(2);
+
+ /* Avoid xserver >= 1.19's epoll-fd becoming fd 2 / stderr only to be
+ replaced by /dev/null by OsInit() because the pollfd is not
+ writable, breaking ospoll_wait(). */
+ nullfd = open("/dev/null", O_WRONLY);
+ dup2(nullfd, 2);
+ close(nullfd);
if (!displaySpecified) {
int port = vncGetSocketPort(vncInetdSock);