Re: [PATCH] detect dup failure

On 6/27/07, Jim Meyering [off-list ref] wrote:

Without this, if you ever run out of file descriptors, dup will
fail (silently), fdopen will return NULL, and fprintf will
try to dereference NULL (i.e., usually segfault).

But if you check the result of fdopen for NULL instead
you'll cover the dup failure _and_ out-of-memory in one
go. You'll loose the errno (probably), but you don't seem
to use it here anyway.