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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:30:01 -0600
From: Eric Blake <eblake AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: bug in pipe() and pipe2()
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I was testing the behavior when pipe() fails, in order to propose an
update to POSIX wording: http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=3D467

However, cygwin's pipe implementation dumps core when it runs out of
fds, so I could not definitively state whether cygwin properly leaves
the fd array unchanged on error, the way Linux does.  According to a gdb
run and while using stock 1.7.9 cygwin1.dll, the crash is in
fhandler_pipe::create().

#define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200811L
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
int
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
  int i =3D 0;
  while (1) {
    int fd[2] =3D {-2,-3};
    int err =3D pipe(fd);
    if (err) {
      printf ("iteration %d, pipe returned %d errno %d %s, fds %d %d\n",
          i, err, errno, strerror(errno), fd[0], fd[1]);
      break;
    }
    i++;
  }
  return 0;
}

Expected behavior is EMFILE and fd unchanged, after however many
iterations it takes to reach the ulimit on max fd.

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Eric Blake   eblake AT redhat DOT com    +1-801-349-2682
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