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I want to capture stdout of running process whose stdout is being redirected to /dev/null. I tried using system call fcntl(), however the moment I close fd "1", it was being allocated for other files as it was lowest available fd number.

Any ideas how to lock given fd and reassign to other file?

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I think you can capture that by using proc filesystem:

$ cat /proc/<PID>/fd/1

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  • Can you add an example of how this works? – Bruce Ediger Jul 5 '13 at 17:27
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    $ cat /proc/<PID>/fd/1 works when written stdout to a file but doesn't work when stdout sent to /dev/null – Srihari Konakanchi Jul 5 '13 at 19:02
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I believe you can use gdb to do that. See several of the answers to this stackoverflow question. Seems like that might come from this blog article.

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  • right, I'm looking for the lines of code to execute while process connected to gdb – Srihari Konakanchi Jul 5 '13 at 19:03
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You can do it using reredirect (https://github.com/jerome-pouiller/reredirect/). 

reredirect -m /dev/null <PID>

You can restore initial output of your process later using something like:

reredirect -N -O <M> -E <N> <PID>

(<M> and <N> are provided by previous launch of reredirect).

reredirect README also explains how to redirect to another command.

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