workaround bug in linux dup2

the linux documentation for dup2 says it can fail with EBUSY due to a
race condition with open and dup in the kernel. shield applications
(and the rest of libc) from this nonsense by looping until it succeeds

diff --git a/src/unistd/dup2.c b/src/unistd/dup2.c
index 7945f853cae600b317ebab09306c4a8df1d06aa4..87a0d44538eb49162bf4d26824b0d35de19af0fb 100644 (file)
--- a/src/unistd/dup2.c
+++ b/src/unistd/dup2.c
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 #include <unistd.h>
+#include <errno.h>
 #include "syscall.h"
 
 int dup2(int old, int new)
 {
-       return syscall(SYS_dup2, old, new);
+       int r;
+       while ((r=__syscall(SYS_dup2, old, new))==-EBUSY);
+       return __syscall_ret(r);
 }