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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: PAX : Too many open files
Message-ID: <6510@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 13 Feb 89 00:20:41 GMT
References: <86247@sun.uucp> <1133@naucse.UUCP> <86924@sun.uucp> <200@wzv.UUCP>
Organization: Grasshopper Group in San Francisco
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wietse@wzv.UUCP (Wietse Z. Venema) wrote:
> Just found a mistake in the code; where closedir() should be called, the
> program invokes the close() function...
> 
> < 		close(dirp);
> ---
> > 		closedir(dirp);

Note that the problem would've been found a long time ago had this program
been checking the results of its system calls...  (Yes, Virginia, a "close()"
CAN fail!)
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