Re: [Bug-tar] tar 1.24: OpenBSD testsuite failures

[Eric Blake]

On 10/27/2010 02:42 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> [adding bug-autoconf]
> 
> On 10/27/2010 01:01 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> On 10/27/10 07:31, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>>> This produces "too many files open in shell" right away:
>>>
>>> ulimit -n 10; : <&-
>>
>> Ah, OK.  Does the following output "buggy shell", then?
>>
>> if (ulimit -n 10; : <&-) 2>/dev/null
>> then echo OK
>> else echo Houston we have a problem
>> fi
> 
> I just tested on OpenBSD 4.7, FreeBSD 8.1, and MirBSD 10; that reports
> failure for all three of those distros.  However, it also reports
> failure for dash 0.5.5.1 and latest dash.git, as well as pdksh.  So the
> bug is pretty much inherited by all ash derivatives.
> 
> It passes on bash, zsh, Solaris /bin/sh, and ksh93.

Actually, bash 4.1 behaves oddly:

$ bash -c 'ulimit -n 11; : <&-'; echo $?
0
$ bash -c 'ulimit -n 10; : <&-'; echo $?
bash: redirection error: cannot duplicate fd: Invalid argument
0

But looking at /proc/.../fd confirms that bash is just being noisy; the
fd was still successfully closed.

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