tests: port to sh variants that squirrel away file descriptors

OpenBSD /bin/sh, and some other sh variants, squirrel away file
descriptors before closing them.  For example, for "cat 3<&-" they
first dup file descriptor 3 to a fd that is 10 or greater, then
close 3 (because if "cat" had been a builtin command like ":" then
they would have wanted to avoid the fork and restore the fd after
":" finished); and they treat ordinary (forking) commands the same
as builtin commands.  This approach fails after "ulimit -n 10".
Work around this deficiency by closing the file descriptors before
invoking ulimit.  Problem reported by Christian Weisgerber in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-10/msg00041.html>;
solution suggested by Jilles Tjoelker in
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.dash/415>.

* tests/extrac11.at (scarce file descriptors): Close file
descriptors before invoking ulimit -n.

diff --git a/tests/extrac11.at b/tests/extrac11.at
index 979b77ce0e1f2a6941ad9b02f6a42b3a1c16be6e..0481c2755098736946530ab00e9cc74771614386 100644 (file)
--- a/tests/extrac11.at
+++ b/tests/extrac11.at
@@ -46,10 +46,14 @@ for dir in $dirs; do
   done
 done
 
-# Check that "ulimit" itself works.
-( (ulimit -n 100 &&
-   tar -cf archive1.tar a 3<&- 4<&- 5<&- 6<&- 7<&- 8<&- 9<&- &&
-   tar -xf archive1.tar -C dest1 a 3<&- 4<&- 5<&- 6<&- 7<&- 8<&- 9<&-
+# Check that "ulimit" itself works.  Close file descriptors before
+# invoking ulimit, to work around a bug (or a "feature") in some shells,
+# where they squirrel away dups of file descriptors into FD 10 and up
+# before closing the originals.
+( (exec 3<&- 4<&- 5<&- 6<&- 7<&- 8<&- 9<&- &&
+   ulimit -n 100 &&
+   tar -cf archive1.tar a &&
+   tar -xf archive1.tar -C dest1 a
   ) &&
   diff -r a dest1/a
 ) >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
@@ -57,18 +61,20 @@ done
 
 # Another test that "ulimit" itself works:
 # tar should fail when completely starved of file descriptors.
-( (ulimit -n 4 &&
-   tar -cf archive2.tar a 3<&- 4<&- 5<&- 6<&- 7<&- 8<&- 9<&- &&
-   tar -xf archive2.tar -C dest2 a 3<&- 4<&- 5<&- 6<&- 7<&- 8<&- 9<&-
+( (exec 3<&- 4<&- 5<&- 6<&- 7<&- 8<&- 9<&- &&
+   ulimit -n 4 &&
+   tar -cf archive2.tar a &&
+   tar -xf archive2.tar -C dest2 a
   ) &&
   diff -r a dest2/a
 ) >/dev/null 2>&1 &&
    AT_SKIP_TEST
 
 # Tar should work when there are few, but enough, file descriptors.
-( (ulimit -n 10 &&
-   tar -cf archive3.tar a 3<&- 4<&- 5<&- 6<&- 7<&- 8<&- 9<&- &&
-   tar -xf archive3.tar -C dest3 a 3<&- 4<&- 5<&- 6<&- 7<&- 8<&- 9<&-
+( (exec 3<&- 4<&- 5<&- 6<&- 7<&- 8<&- 9<&- &&
+   ulimit -n 10 &&
+   tar -cf archive3.tar a &&
+   tar -xf archive3.tar -C dest3 a
   ) &&
   diff -r a dest3/a >/dev/null 2>&1
 ) || { diff -r a dest3/a; exit 1; }