Bug#27066: dpkg: close(134547020) in dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Andrew Pimlott writes ("Bug#27066: dpkg: close(134547020) in dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile"):
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> I had occasion to strace dpkg-deb, and I found a bizarre call to close.
> I haven't tracked the problem down further.

Do you think that these lines may be relevant:

(various lines omitted from in between these)
> 7215  open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = 4
> 7215  open("/home/andrew/projects/wsproxy/lib/connect.so", O_RDONLY) = 4
> 7215  write(2, "Yikes!  sockfd == 134547020\n", 28 <unfinished ...>
> 7215  <... write resumed> )             = 28
> 7215  close(134547020 <unfinished ...>
> 7215  <... close resumed> )             = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)

?

Ian.