Re: [Bug-tar] tar 1.24: OpenBSD testsuite failures

[Paul Eggert]

On 10/27/10 07:31, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> This produces "too many files open in shell" right away:
> 
> ulimit -n 10; : <&-

Ah, OK.  Does the following output "buggy shell", then?

if (ulimit -n 10; : <&-) 2>/dev/null
then echo OK
else echo Houston we have a problem
fi

It would be helpful if this could be tried on FreeBSD as well;
that way, we wouldn't have to do this test as well as the
more-complicated test.

I don't see how this behavior can be defended as "not a bug",
but we don't have to resolve that issue right now; all we have
to do is to fix the tests so that they don't incorrectly report
a bug in tar when this (ahem) "situation" arises with the shell.