Paul Eggert wrote: > That being said, I see a path through lib/dirfd.c where dirfd's arg is > ignored.
Yes, that may happen in systems that don't have d_fd nor dd_fd in 'DIR' and are not Windows. But such systems are of the 1980ies or 1990ies, and Gnulib does not support them any more. I would not install the patch with _GL_UNUSED. Bruno