opendir(/dev/fd/n) should fail

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 22 10:18, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 21 22:55, Helmut Karlowski wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> No, nobody reported it yet, afaics.  I'll have a look later today.

I applied a fix and uploaded a new developer snapshot to
https://cygwin.com/snapshots/

Please give it a try and report back.


Thanks,
Corinna

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