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diff --git a/lib/socket-util.c b/lib/socket-util.c
index 33e179e1..086a329e 100644
--- a/lib/socket-util.c
+++ b/lib/socket-util.c
@@ -299,6 +299,24 @@ guess_netmask(uint32_t ip)
             : htonl(0));                          /* ??? */
 }
 
+/* Returns a readable and writable fd for /dev/null, if successful, otherwise
+ * a negative errno value.  The caller must not close the returned fd (because
+ * the same fd will be handed out to subsequent callers). */
+int
+get_null_fd(void)
+{
+    static int null_fd = -1;
+    if (null_fd < 0) {
+        null_fd = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR);
+        if (null_fd < 0) {
+            int error = errno;
+            VLOG_ERR("could not open /dev/null: %s", strerror(error));
+            return -error;
+        }
+    }
+    return null_fd;
+}
+
 int
 read_fully(int fd, void *p_, size_t size, size_t *bytes_read)
 {