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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>, 25029 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org, Alex Ryan <alexander.j.ryan <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#25029: shuf generates “Bad file descriptor” error on nfs but only when run as a background process
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 00:18:23 +0000

On 26/11/16 23:49, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 11/25/2016 06:00 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> Isn't that a bug in glibc freopen? It shouldn't fail ... merely 
>> because stdin doesn't have a valid file descriptor. If so, we should 
>> fix the Gnulib freopen module to work around the bug.
> 
> I did that, by installing the attached patches into Gnulib (first patch) 
> and into Coreutils (2nd and 3rd patches). This fixes the shuf bug for 
> me, so closing the bug report. CC'ing to bug-gnulib due to the Gnulib fix.

Cool thanks.  I see it does the equivalent of:

  $tool file 0>&- || $tool file </dev/null

Does the freopen module now need to depend on
the dup2 and open modules?  For example using dup2(fd, fd)
to test fd validity fails on Linux 2.6.29

thanks,
Pádraig

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