linux-kernel - dup2() vs dup3() inconsistency when

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Date:	Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:10:08 +0200
From:	"Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@...glemail.com>
To:	"Al Viro" <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	"Ulrich Drepper" <drepper@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: dup2() vs dup3() inconsistency when

Al,

your 2008-07-26 commit 6c5d0512a091480c9f981162227fdb1c9d70e555 for
fs/fcntl.c:sys_dup3 contains

+       if (unlikely(oldfd == newfd))
+               return -EINVAL;

This makes dup2() and dup3() differ with respect to the oldfd==newfd
case (dup2() becomes a no-op, just returning oldfd, dup3() gives the
EINVAL error.

Your commit log doesn't explain the rationale for this change.  What
is it?  (I could guess that it is to error on a case that may be a
user programming error, but I want to check this with you, so that I
add the right text to the man page.)

Cheers,

Michael


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