Re: pg_check_dir comments and implementation mismatch

On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Marco Nenciarini
<marco.nenciarini@2ndquadrant.it> wrote:
> Il 30/01/15 03:54, Michael Paquier ha scritto:
>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 2:49 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> There is at least one other bug in that function now that I look at it:
>>> in event of a readdir() failure, it neglects to execute closedir().
>>> Perhaps not too significant since all existing callers will just exit()
>>> anyway after a failure, but still ...
>> I would imagine that code scanners like coverity or similar would not
>> be happy about that. ISTM that it is better to closedir()
>> appropriately in all the code paths.
>>
>
> I've attached a new version of the patch fixing the missing closedir on
> readdir error.

If readir() fails and closedir() succeeds, the return will be -1 but
errno will be 0.

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