From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: bug with <&- under ulimit -n
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:33:41 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CC89AB5.3050207@redhat.com> (raw)
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Dash does not behave well when under artificial fd pressure due to
ulimit -n. It insists on copying a to-be-closed fd to another fd
greater than 10, then complains when the dup fails, rather than just
flat-out closing the fd in the first place. Compare this with ksh93
$ ksh -c 'ulimit -n 10; : <&-'; echo $?
0
$ dash -c 'ulimit -n 11; : <&-'; echo $?
0
$ dash -c 'ulimit -n 10; : <&-'; echo $?
dash: 0: Invalid argument
2
See this thread on the bug-tar list for more details:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.tar.bugs/4010/focus=4020
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Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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next reply other threads:[~2010-10-27 21:33 UTC|newest]
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2010-10-27 21:33 Eric Blake [this message]
2010-10-27 22:50 ` bug with <&- under ulimit -n Jilles Tjoelker
2010-10-28 2:11 ` Herbert Xu
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