return error ? -error : fd;
}
+/* Returns a readable and writable fd for /dev/null, if successful, otherwise
+ * a negative errno value. The caller must not close the returned fd (because
+ * the same fd will be handed out to subsequent callers). */
+int
+get_null_fd(void)
+{
+ static int null_fd = -1;
+ if (null_fd < 0) {
+ null_fd = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR);
+ if (null_fd < 0) {
+ int error = errno;
+ VLOG_ERR("could not open /dev/null: %s", strerror(error));
+ return -error;
+ }
+ }
+ return null_fd;
+}
+
int
read_fully(int fd, void *p_, size_t size, size_t *bytes_read)
{