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According to cygwin at sipxx.com on 8/21/2009 3:56 PM:
> It does reject the argument if the upper bound is reached. On the lower
> end, the linux man page does not specify that negative numbers are not
> allowed as arguments.

But POSIX does (and Linux at least obeys this part of POSIX, whether or
not its man page says so):

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fcntl.html

[EINVAL]
    The cmd argument is invalid, or the cmd argument is F_DUPFD or
F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC and arg is negative or greater than or equal to {OPEN_MAX}

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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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