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diff --git a/nix/libutil/util.cc b/nix/libutil/util.cc
index eb2d16e1cc..56f116046c 100644
--- a/nix/libutil/util.cc
+++ b/nix/libutil/util.cc
@@ -1279,6 +1279,9 @@ void commonChildInit(Pipe & logPipe)
if (setsid() == -1)
throw SysError(format("creating a new session"));
+ /* Close the read end so only the parent holds a reference to it. */
+ logPipe.readSide.close();
+
/* Dup the write side of the logger pipe into stderr. */
if (dup2(logPipe.writeSide, STDERR_FILENO) == -1)
throw SysError("cannot pipe standard error into log file");