--- fileutils-4.0x/lib/closeout.c.orig	Fri Oct 13 16:16:41 2000
+++ fileutils-4.0x/lib/closeout.c	Fri Oct 13 16:22:55 2000
@@ -85,14 +85,22 @@
 
    It's important to detect such failures and exit nonzero because many
    tools (most notably `make' and other build-management systems) depend
-   on being able to detect failure in other tools via their exit status.  */
+   on being able to detect failure in other tools via their exit status. 
+
+   NOTE HOWEVER! (Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak <kas@fi.muni.cz>, Oct 13 2000)
+   We cannot raise an error condition if the caller tries to close
+   the already-closed file descriptor. If we did that, many utilities
+   (such as rm or ln) would stop working when called with closed
+   stdout. Thus we have to check the errno value after fclose, and if this
+   is EBADF (Bad file descriptor), we have to ignore that. */
 void
 close_stdout_status (int status)
 {
   int e = ferror (stdout) ? 0 : -1;
 
   if (fclose (stdout) != 0)
-    e = errno;
+    if (errno != EBADF)
+      e = errno;
 
   if (0 <= e)
     {