> From: Jim Meyering [mailto:j...@meyering.net] > Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 11:51 AM > To: Joachim Schmitz > Cc: 'Paul Eggert'; bug-gnulib@gnu.org; bug-coreut...@gnu.org > Subject: Re: coreutils-8.14, "rm -r" fails with EBADF > > Joachim Schmitz wrote: > > >> From: Paul Eggert [mailto:egg...@cs.ucla.edu] > >> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 7:07 PM > >> To: Joachim Schmitz > >> Cc: Jim Meyering; bug-coreut...@gnu.org; bug-gnulib@gnu.org > >> Subject: Re: coreutils-8.14, "rm -r" fails with EBADF > >> > >> On 12/15/11 08:28, Jim Meyering wrote: ... > > So... it seems we can't dup() an fd for a directory here! > > Right. > Your config.h file suggests you're not using a gnulib dup replacement, so I > suspect a bug in your system's dup implementation.
Hmm, I can dup() an fd for a directory if or had been open()'d O_RDONLY, but not if opened O_WRONLY or O_RDWR, I'll get an EISDIR from open() then. > I thought gnulib had pretty good dup* test coverage, but see that no dup* test > uses a directory file descriptor. Any workaround?
