Re: fdopendir closes the file descriptor on MinGW

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:33:57 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
> On 03/18/2015 09:16 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > An alternative would be to use Gnulib's opendir instead, which seems
> > to already take care of allocating a file descriptor.  However,
> > Gnulib's opendir is not being linked into the test program; instead,
> > MinGW's own opendir is.
> 
> That doesn't sound right.  The whole point of the dir business on 
> Windows (as I understand it) is to wrap all the directory primitives, 
> and opendir ought to be one of those primitives. Perhaps someone could 
> investigate why the Gnulib opendir isn't being used here, as it should be.

I was wrong, sorry.  Gnulib's opendir is being called.  But as I wrote
earlier, that cannot solve the issue, because dirfd cannot return the
file descriptor, if any, which was used to open the directory.