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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 22:55:45 -0000
Subject: opendir(/dev/fd/n) should fail
From: "Helmut Karlowski" <helmut DOT karlowski AT gmx DOT de>
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I discovered a strange behaviour when accessing /dev/fd:

           ls -l /dev/fd/0
           ls -l /dev/fd/0/1
           ls -l /dev/fd/0/1/2/3/4/5
           ls -l /dev/fd/0/1/2/3/
           ls -l /dev/fd/0/1/2
           ls -l /dev/fd/0/1/2/3
           ls -l /dev/fd/0/1/1/1/1

gives:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 hk Benutzer 0 Jan 21 23:52 /dev/fd/0 -> /dev/pty0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 hk Benutzer 0 Jan 21 23:52 /dev/fd/0/1 -> /dev/pty0
ls: cannot access /dev/fd/0/1/2/3/4/5: Not a directory
ls: cannot access /dev/fd/0/1/2/3/: Not a directory
lrwxrwxrwx 1 hk Benutzer 0 Jan 21 23:52 /dev/fd/0/1/2 -> /dev/pty0
ls: cannot access /dev/fd/0/1/2/3: Not a directory
lrwxrwxrwx 1 hk Benutzer 0 Jan 21 23:52 /dev/fd/0/1/1/1/1 -> /dev/pty0

I'd expect ls /dev/fd/n/p to fail for any combination of n and p.

I'm using 1.7.32. Has this been fixed meanwhile?

-Helmut

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