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coreutils-8.14, "rm -r" fails with EBADF

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Message #101 received at 10305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Joachim Schmitz" <jojo <at> schmitz-digital.de>
To: "'Paul Eggert'" <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 10305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 'Eric Blake' <eblake <at> redhat.com>, bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org,
	'Jim Meyering' <jim <at> meyering.net>
Subject: RE: bug#10305: coreutils-8.14, "rm -r" fails with EBADF
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:24:00 +0100

> From: Paul Eggert [mailto:eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 7:01 AM
> To: Joachim Schmitz
> Cc: 10305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org; bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org; 'Eric Blake'; 'Jim Meyering'
> Subject: Re: bug#10305: coreutils-8.14, "rm -r" fails with EBADF
> 
> On 01/14/2012 08:27 AM, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
> >> Oh well, it was a bit of a stab in the dark anyway.
> >> > I guess we'll have to do Eric's suggestion to wrap opendir
> >> > <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10305#68>.
> >> > That should work around the problem, and in some sense it's nicer
> >> > anyway because it causes dirfd to work in the usual way (as required in the
> next POSIX).
> > Any progress on this?
> 
> Not be me, alas.  Is it something you can work on?

I'm afraid I cannot, wouldn't even know where to start.
I'd be willing to test though.

Bye, Jojo 

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