diff --git a/posix/Makefile b/posix/Makefile
index 3a7719e..586d45b 100644
--- a/posix/Makefile
+++ b/posix/Makefile
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ tests := tstgetopt testfnm runtests runptests \
xtests := bug-ga2
ifeq (yes,$(build-shared))
test-srcs := globtest
-tests += wordexp-test tst-exec tst-spawn tst-spawn2
+tests += wordexp-test tst-exec tst-spawn tst-spawn2 tst-spawn3
endif
tests-static = tst-exec-static tst-spawn-static
tests += $(tests-static)
diff --git a/posix/tst-spawn3.c b/posix/tst-spawn3.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e66c491
--- /dev/null
+++ b/posix/tst-spawn3.c
@@ -0,0 +1,189 @@
+/* Check posix_spawn add file actions.
+ Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ This file is part of the GNU C Library.
+
+ The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+ The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
+ . */
+
+#include
+#include
+#include
+#include
+#include
+#include
+#include
+#include
+#include
+
+static int do_test (void);
+#define TEST_FUNCTION do_test ()
+#include
+
+static int
+do_test (void)
+{
+ /* The test checks if posix_spawn open file action close the file descriptor
+ before opening a new one in case the input file descriptor is already
+ opened. It does by exhausting all file descriptors on the process before
+ issue posix_spawn. It then issues a posix_spawn for '/bin/sh echo $$'
+ and add two rules:
+
+ 1. Redirect stdout to a temporary filepath
+ 2. Redirect stderr to stdout
+
+ If the implementation does not close the file 1. will fail with
+ EMFILE. */
+
+ struct rlimit rl;
+ int max_fd = 24;
+
+ /* Set maximum number of file descriptor to a low value to avoid open
+ too many files in environments where RLIMIT_NOFILE is large and to
+ limit the array size to track the opened file descriptors. */
+
+ if (getrlimit (RLIMIT_NOFILE, &rl) == -1)
+ {
+ printf ("error: getrlimit RLIMIT_NOFILE failed");
+ exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
+ }
+
+ max_fd = (rl.rlim_cur < max_fd ? rl.rlim_cur : max_fd);
+ rl.rlim_cur = max_fd;
+
+ if (setrlimit (RLIMIT_NOFILE, &rl) == 1)
+ {
+ printf ("error: setrlimit RLIMIT_NOFILE to %u failed", max_fd);
+ exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
+ }
+
+ /* Exhauste the file descriptor limit with temporary files. */
+ int files[max_fd];
+ int nfiles = 0;
+ for (;;)
+ {
+ int fd = create_temp_file ("tst-spawn3.", NULL);
+ if (fd == -1)
+ {
+ if (errno != EMFILE)
+ {
+ printf ("error: create_temp_file returned -1 with "
+ "errno != EMFILE\n");
+ exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
+ }
+ break;
+ }
+ files[nfiles++] = fd;
+ }
+
+ posix_spawn_file_actions_t a;
+ if (posix_spawn_file_actions_init (&a) != 0)
+ {
+ puts ("error: spawn_file_actions_init failed");
+ exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
+ }
+
+ /* Executes a /bin/sh echo $$ 2>&1 > /tmp/tst-spawn3.pid . */
+ const char pidfile[] = "/tmp/tst-spawn3.pid";
+ if (posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen (&a, STDOUT_FILENO, pidfile, O_WRONLY |
+ O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, 0644) != 0)
+ {
+ puts ("error: spawn_file_actions_addopen failed");
+ exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
+ }
+
+ if (posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2 (&a, STDOUT_FILENO, STDERR_FILENO) != 0)
+ {
+ puts ("error: spawn_file_actions_addclose");
+ exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
+ }
+
+ /* Since execve (called by posix_spawn) might require to open files to
+ actually execute the shell script, setup to close the temporary file
+ descriptors. */
+ for (int i=0; iaction.open_action.fd))
+ close_not_cancel (action->action.open_action.fd);
+
ret = open_not_cancel (action->action.open_action.path,
action->action.
open_action.oflag | O_LARGEFILE,