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-rw-r--r--compat/winansi.c11
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/compat/winansi.c b/compat/winansi.c
index 3c9ed3cfe..82b89ab13 100644
--- a/compat/winansi.c
+++ b/compat/winansi.c
@@ -494,19 +494,16 @@ static HANDLE swap_osfhnd(int fd, HANDLE new_handle)
* It is because of this implicit close() that we created the
* copy of the original.
*
- * Note that the OS can recycle HANDLE (numbers) just like it
- * recycles fd (numbers), so we must update the cached value
- * of "console". You can use GetFileType() to see that
- * handle and _get_osfhandle(fd) may have the same number
- * value, but they refer to different actual files now.
+ * Note that we need to update the cached console handle to the
+ * duplicated one because the dup2() call will implicitly close
+ * the original one.
*
* Note that dup2() when given target := {0,1,2} will also
* call SetStdHandle(), so we don't need to worry about that.
*/
- dup2(new_fd, fd);
if (console == handle)
console = duplicate;
- handle = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE;
+ dup2(new_fd, fd);
/* Close the temp fd. This explicitly closes "new_handle"
* (because it has been associated with it).