GNU bug report logs - #31332
touch unnecessarily calls dup2

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: John Steele Scott <toojays <at> toojays.net>

Date: Tue, 1 May 2018 15:28:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: John Steele Scott <toojays <at> toojays.net>, Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>, 31332 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31332: touch unnecessarily calls dup2
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 22:38:36 -0700

John Steele Scott wrote:
> Prior tohttp://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=e373bb19  fd_reopen() initially did "close(desired_fd); fd = open(...)" which would always do the right thing

No, as the old code did the wrong thing for "touch /dev/stdin", whereas the 
current code works.
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