/* Note that this is invoked relatively early, before we start
* the pager. That means the value we return reflects whether
* we originally were started on a tty, not if we currently
- * are. But this is intended, since we want color, and so on
+ * are. But this is intended, since we want colour and so on
* when run in our own pager. */
if (_unlikely_(t < 0))
/* Don't leak fds to the agent */
close_all_fds(NULL, 0);
- /* Detach from stdin/stdout/stderr. and reopen
- * /dev/tty for them. This is important to ensure that
- * when systemctl is started via popen() or a similar
- * call that expects to read EOF we actually do
- * generate EOF and not delay this indefinitely by
- * because we keep an unused copy of stdin around. */
- if ((fd = open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR)) < 0) {
- log_error("Failed to open /dev/tty: %m");
- _exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
- }
+ if (!isatty(STDOUT_FILENO) || !isatty(STDERR_FILENO)) {
+ /* Detach from stdout/stderr. and reopen
+ * /dev/tty for them. This is important to
+ * ensure that when systemctl is started via
+ * popen() or a similar call that expects to
+ * read EOF we actually do generate EOF and
+ * not delay this indefinitely by because we
+ * keep an unused copy of stdin around. */
+ if ((fd = open("/dev/tty", O_WRONLY)) < 0) {
+ log_error("Failed to open /dev/tty: %m");
+ _exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+ }
- close(STDIN_FILENO);
- close(STDOUT_FILENO);
- close(STDERR_FILENO);
+ if (!isatty(STDOUT_FILENO)) {
+ close(STDOUT_FILENO);
+ dup2(fd, STDOUT_FILENO);
+ }
- dup2(fd, STDIN_FILENO);
- dup2(fd, STDOUT_FILENO);
- dup2(fd, STDERR_FILENO);
+ if (!isatty(STDERR_FILENO)) {
+ close(STDERR_FILENO);
+ dup2(fd, STDERR_FILENO);
+ }
- if (fd > 2)
- close(fd);
+ if (fd > 2)
+ close(fd);
+ }
execv(args[0], (char **) args);
_exit(EXIT_FAILURE);