Dropbear server 0.50 stops listening to socket when started without stdin

[Matt Johnston]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 03:18:47PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The 2007-07-19 commit ("Patch from Nicolai Ehemann to try binding before going 
> to the background, so that if it exits early (because something's already 
> listening etc) then it will return an exitcode of 1.") breaks Dropbear when 
> started from init (busybox 1.6.1) with no console.
> 
> When no console is configured, init starts dropbear with stdin (fd 0) closed. 
> The socket opened by listensockets() will then be assigned fd 0. The later 
> call to daemon() will reassign fd 0, 1 and 2 to /dev/null, making dropbreak 
> stop listening to the network.
> 
> I reverted the patch as temporary workaround. I'm not sure what a proper 
> solution would be.

Aha, right. I'm heading away for a few weeks, will have a
closer look after that. Sounds plausible that it broke
something though.

Cheers,
Matt