the linux documentation for dup2 says it can fail with EBUSY due to a race condition with open and dup in the kernel. shield applications (and the rest of libc) from this nonsense by looping until it succeeds
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
#include <unistd.h>
+#include <errno.h>
#include "syscall.h"
int dup2(int old, int new)
{
- return syscall(SYS_dup2, old, new);
+ int r;
+ while ((r=__syscall(SYS_dup2, old, new))==-EBUSY);
+ return __syscall_ret(r);
}