[Mauiusers] Patch to fix a possible double free

[Garrick Staples]

> > I have a (possibly naive) snippet of code from another type of
> > daemon process where the files are properly closed:
> > 
> >         /* Become a daemon */
> >         pid = fork();
> >         if (pid > 0) {          /* Parent */
> >                 /* Close parent's streams */
> >                fclose (stdin);
> >                fclose (stdout);
> >                fclose (stderr);
> >                 return(0);
> >         } else if (pid < 0) {   /* Error */
> >                 printf("%s: Could not fork child process\n", argv[0]);
> >                 return(-1);
> >         }
> > 
> > The Maui code in src/server/OServer.c doesn't close file descriptors,
> > which IMHO it ought to do.  Ronny has even more detailed suggestions
> > above which I don't claim to understand fully.

*closing* is a bad idea because you don't want those descriptors to be reused by future function calls.  Imagine some random debug printf() going to some all-important network socket that happened to get fd 2.

You really want them to be associated with /dev/null.

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