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diff --git a/libio/iopopen.c b/libio/iopopen.c
index 896e930f40..d5c6305b09 100644
--- a/libio/iopopen.c
+++ b/libio/iopopen.c
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1993, 1997-2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright (C) 1993, 1997-2002, 2003, 2004, 2007
+ Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library.
Written by Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com>.
@@ -169,7 +170,15 @@ _IO_new_proc_open (fp, command, mode)
popen() calls that remain open in the parent process are closed
in the new child process." */
for (p = proc_file_chain; p; p = p->next)
- _IO_close (_IO_fileno ((_IO_FILE *) p));
+ {
+ int fd = _IO_fileno ((_IO_FILE *) p);
+
+ /* If any stream from previous popen() calls has fileno
+ child_std_end, it has been already closed by the dup2 syscall
+ above. */
+ if (fd != child_std_end)
+ _IO_close (fd);
+ }
_IO_execl ("/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", command, (char *) 0);
_IO__exit (127);