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File descriptor error when exiting emacs on android 11

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From: Henrik Grimler <henrik <at> grimler.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 47596 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47596: File descriptor error when exiting emacs on android 11
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2021 10:14:10 +0200

Hi,

Compiling this, on any optimisation level, is enough to trigger the
error:

```
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
  fdopen (2, "w");
  fclose (stderr);
}
```

In emacs fdopen is run in init_standard_fds, where we have

```
[...]

  force_open (STDERR_FILENO, O_RDONLY);

  /* Set buferr if possible on platforms defining _PC_PIPE_BUF, as
     they support the notion of atomic writes to pipes.  */
  #ifdef _PC_PIPE_BUF
    buferr = fdopen (STDERR_FILENO, "w");
    if (buferr)
      setvbuf (buferr, NULL, _IOLBF, 0);
  #endif
}
```

so I suppose there is either some very fundamental issue with 
`fdopen (STDERR_FILENO, "w")` here, or the file descriptor sanitizer on
android is broken.

If I avoid that part of init_standard_fds, i.e. change the ifdef to
something like `#if defined(_PC_PIPE_BUF) && !defined(__ANDROID__)`, I
get an emacs that seem to fully work on android.

Best regards,
Henrik Grimler

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