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Date:      Sat, 12 Jun 1999 11:56:45 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        marcel@scc.nl (Marcel Moolenaar)
Cc:        emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bug in linux fcntl syscall?
Message-ID:  <199906120956.LAA13361@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <37621CAD.7E822846@scc.nl> from Marcel Moolenaar at "Jun 12, 1999 10:39: 9 am"

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It seems Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> Allan Saddi wrote:
> 
> > Today, after hours of truss'ing and strace'ing (on a RedHat 6 system), I
> > discovered the problem. In linux_file.c, the function linux_fcntl:
> 
> > Notice that fcntl_args.arg is always 0. This keeps the F_SETFD call from
> > ever setting the close-on-exec flag, which is precisely the problem. I
> > patched the LINUX_F_SETFD case to set fcntl_args.arg to args->arg, and
> > TclPro's prodebug now works fine.
> 
> > I would've filed a PR, but looking at the code, I see other cases that
> > set/assign fcntl_args.arg explicitly. So I'm wondering if this was a
> > design decision rather than a bug? (One of those feature vs. bugs things,
> > I guess. ;)
> 
> I wouldn't call it a bug. I wouldn't call it a feature either :-)
> Anyway, you should file the PR.

Its a bug allright, I'll look at it together with some other patches
for the emulator, anyone with special wishes currently, og outstanding
patches/fixes/upgrades? I'll merge the bits and commit... 

-Søren


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