Bug in closedir

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From: T. William Wells
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1989 02:52

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Closedir, on my Microport SysV/386 3.0e, frees the DIR structure
and then closes the file using the first field of that structure.
If you are using -lmalloc, which trashes the freed data, you are
going to be unpleasantly surprised.

No doubt this bogosity is present throughout the library.

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