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From: wietse@wzv.UUCP (Wietse Z. Venema)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: PAX : Too many open files
Message-ID: <203@wzv.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 89 08:53:29 GMT
References: <86247@sun.uucp> <1133@naucse.UUCP> <86924@sun.uucp> <200@wzv.UUCP> <6510@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: wietse@wzv.UUCP (Wietse Z. Venema)
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) added:
>wietse@wzv.UUCP (Wietse Z. Venema) wrote:
>>
>> < 		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...  

This particular type of problems (wrong function/argument) can be found
even earlier by checking the result of lint(1).  Strongly recommended.
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