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Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

> This patch is not acceptable as-is: EBADF should normally be a symptom
> of another bug in Emacs (we should never pass a bad descriptor), so
> rather than ignore it, we should figure out where it comes from and
> fix it there.

Hmm, the bug seen by Joakim happens on GNU/Linux, so it can't be related
to the RES_INIT issues leading to #84 and #425.  Joakim, could you try
to debug where the bad descriptor comes from?