PAX : Too many open files

[John Gilmore]

wietse at wzv.UUCP (Wietse Z. Venema) wrote:
> Just found a mistake in the code; where closedir() should be called, the
> program invokes the close() function...
> 
> < 		close(dirp);
> ---
> > 		closedir(dirp);

Note that the problem would've been found a long time ago had this program
been checking the results of its system calls...  (Yes, Virginia, a "close()"
CAN fail!)
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