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Simon McVittie b478f3e737 tests: Assert that glnx_close_fd preserves errno
We document glnx_close_fd as preserving errno, so let's assert that it
really does. There are three code paths we need to exercise:

1. fd < 0: glnx_close_fd does nothing, successfully
2. fd >= 0 and close() succeeds
3. fd >= 0 and close() fails

The first two are easy, but it's difficult to make close() fail on-demand
with only valid code. close(2) documents EIO, but it's difficult to
cause an I/O error on-demand. Similarly, close(2) documents ENOSPC
and EDQUOT on NFS, but we are unlikely to have a full NFS filesystem
available during testing.

Instead, we can trigger a failure via the programming error of passing a
fd to glnx_close_fd that was already closed, which makes close(2) fail
with EBADF. In older libglnx, we wouldn't have been able to test this
because it caused an assertion failure, but in GLib and new libglnx it
only causes a critical warning, which we can catch and ignore.

See also GLib commit GNOME/glib@f1f711dc "tests: Test EBADF and errno
handling when closing fds". GLib doesn't have a 1:1 equivalent of
glnx_close_fd as public API, but an internal version is used to
implement g_autofd.

Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
2026-04-07 16:03:31 +01:00
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