Re: echo > * and EMFILE

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 13,  5:28pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
}
} Bart Schaefer wrote:
} > If we call zerr() and closemnodes(), then an error message is printed
} > once but the command never actually executes, so the files that it was
} > possible to open are truncated to zero size.   If we call zwarn() and
} > not closemnodes(), then hundreds of error messages are printed, the
} > command goes ahead, some files get $SECONDS and some remain unchanged.
} > Which is preferable?
} 
} Probably the former.

OK, I'll go ahead and commit the patch from 23169, along with one other
spot in addfd() where it's possible to detect movefd() failure.