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[PATCH] setup.c: remove needless argument passed to open in sanitize_stdfds

From: <hidden>
Date: 2018-11-25 16:20:30
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

From: Pedro de Lyra <redacted>

Signed-off-by: Pedro de Lyra <redacted>
---
According to POSIX manual pages, the open() system call's mode argument specifies the file mode bits to be applied when a new file is created. If neither O_CREAT nor O_TMPFILE is specified, then mode is ignored. So I guess that 0 argument only confuses the reader.
 setup.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index 1be5037f1..d4fd14bb7 100644
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -1228,7 +1228,7 @@ const char *resolve_gitdir_gently(const char *suspect, int *return_error_code)
 /* if any standard file descriptor is missing open it to /dev/null */
 void sanitize_stdfds(void)
 {
-	int fd = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR, 0);
+	int fd = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR);
 	while (fd != -1 && fd < 2)
 		fd = dup(fd);
 	if (fd == -1)
-- 
2.17.1
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