Bug 436368

Summary:	Double close in dd
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper.fsp>
Component:	coreutils	Assignee:	Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	meyering, twaugh
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Description Ulrich Drepper 2008-03-06 15:03:54 EST

Description of problem:
Running

  strace -E LC_ALL=C dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=1 bs=1

shows that dd tries to close file descriptor 1 twice:

[...]
write(2, "1 byte (1 B) copied", 191 byte (1 B) copied)     = 19
write(2, ", 0.000151196 s, 6.6 kB/s\n", 26, 0.000151196 s, 6.6 kB/s
) = 26
close(1)                                = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
close(2)                                = 0



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
coreutils-6.10-11.fc9
coreutils-6.9-13.fc8

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.run above command
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
double close

Expected results:
only one close

Additional info:

Comment 1 Ondrej Vasik 2008-03-07 03:13:22 EST

Thanks for report.
Caused by atexit(close_stdout).
This atexit close is (from comments) because of possible exit in external
function for parsing long options.
Second one is in cleanup function (from comments) necessary for call from signal
handler. 
Maybe the easiest solution would be to differ between signal handling cleanup
and exit/quit cleanup (two functions or boolean for decision)...
Any other ideas?

Comment 2 Jim Meyering 2008-03-07 07:27:18 EST

Thanks for the report.  For the record, there was no harm in that double close,
other than the negligible overhead of the failing close syscall. In spite of
that, I've changed dd.c to avoid the unnecessary close_stdout call when possible:
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs/12901

Comment 3 Ondrej Vasik 2008-03-11 08:55:49 EDT

Built as coreutils-6.10-12.fc9 , closing RAWHIDE.