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| -rw-r--r-- | builtin-merge-file.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/builtin-merge-file.c b/builtin-merge-file.c index 9d4e874809..96edb97a83 100644 --- a/builtin-merge-file.c +++ b/builtin-merge-file.c @@ -51,8 +51,11 @@ int cmd_merge_file(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) argc = parse_options(argc, argv, options, merge_file_usage, 0); if (argc != 3) usage_with_options(merge_file_usage, options); - if (quiet) - freopen("/dev/null", "w", stderr); + if (quiet) { + if (!freopen("/dev/null", "w", stderr)) + return error("failed to redirect stderr to /dev/null: " + "%s\n", strerror(errno)); + } for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) { if (!names[i]) |