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| -rw-r--r-- | src/dired.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/dired.c b/src/dired.c index 28d1cffb44c..239b1acd1fb 100644 --- a/src/dired.c +++ b/src/dired.c @@ -953,7 +953,14 @@ file_attributes (int fd, char const *name, { record_unwind_protect_int (close_file_unwind, namefd); if (fstat (namefd, &s) != 0) - err = errno; + { + err = errno; + /* The Linux kernel before version 3.6 does not support + fstat on O_PATH file descriptors. Handle this error like + missing support for O_PATH. */ + if (err == EBADF) + err = EINVAL; + } else { err = 0; |