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shuf generates “Bad file descriptor” error on nfs but only when run as a background process

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, Alex Ryan <alexander.j.ryan <at> gmail.com>,  25029 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25029: shuf generates “Bad file descriptor” error on nfs but only when run as a background process
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 02:41:23 +0000

On 26/11/16 02:00, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> Actually the minimum reproducer is:
>>
>>   $ shuf /dev/null 0>&-
>>   shuf: read error: Bad file descriptor
> 
> Ouch. Isn't that a bug in glibc freopen? It shouldn't fail with errno==EINVAL 
> merely because stdin doesn't have a valid file descriptor. If so, we should fix 
> the Gnulib freopen module to work around the bug. If not, I suppose we can fix 
> this in freopen-safer.

Yes it's surprising.  I see POSIX states freopen() should only return
EBADF in the case where the pathname specified is NULL.
I.E. when operating on the old descriptor.
But shouldn't freopen() be using a new descriptor here?
Definitely looks like a glibc bug.

cheers,
Pádraig

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