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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#25029: shuf generates “Bad file descriptor” error on nfs but only when run as a background process |
Date: | Fri, 25 Nov 2016 18:00:11 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 |
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.
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