Cleanup

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/src/libutil/util.cc b/src/libutil/util.cc
index a703c5650..843a10eab 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.cc
+++ b/src/libutil/util.cc
@@ -1968,7 +1968,7 @@ std::string showBytes(uint64_t bytes)
 
 
 // FIXME: move to libstore/build
-void commonChildInit(int stderrFd)
+void commonChildInit()
 {
     logger = makeSimpleLogger();
 
@@ -1982,10 +1982,6 @@ void commonChildInit(int stderrFd)
     if (setsid() == -1)
         throw SysError("creating a new session");
 
-    /* Dup the write side of the logger pipe into stderr. */
-    if (stderrFd != -1 && dup2(stderrFd, STDERR_FILENO) == -1)
-        throw SysError("cannot pipe standard error into log file");
-
     /* Dup stderr to stdout. */
     if (dup2(STDERR_FILENO, STDOUT_FILENO) == -1)
         throw SysError("cannot dup stderr into stdout");
diff --git a/src/libutil/util.hh b/src/libutil/util.hh
index 52ca36fd1..a8e6f9fbb 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.hh
+++ b/src/libutil/util.hh
@@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ typedef std::function<bool(const Path & path)> PathFilter;
 extern PathFilter defaultPathFilter;
 
 /* Common initialisation performed in child processes. */
-void commonChildInit(int stderrFd);
+void commonChildInit();
 
 /* Create a Unix domain socket. */
 AutoCloseFD createUnixDomainSocket();