Re: bin/44722

[Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/44722; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/44722
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 23:47:26 +0530

 Not only ls(1) but probably a number of other programs are not behaving
 correclty under low file descriptor limit.
 For example:
 
 $ man ls
 .: 4: Invalid argument
 
 The error messages suggest that probably something is going wrong with
 the shell. Probably the shell tries to execute the shell built-in '.'
 (as observed by the above error message).
 
 It was even more weird to see that ls(1) and man(1) exited with proper
 error messages if I tried to do something like this:
 
 $ . ls #supply name of any executable file
 .: Cannot execute ELF binary /bin/ls
 
 $ ls
 ls: .: Too many open files
 
 $ man sh
 .: Can't open /etc/shrc
 
 So the bug probably is in the shell ?  The above worked with sh(1) , I
 also tried the same with bash(1) but it didn't work on bash.
 
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 Abhinav