Take a process P1 that spawns a thread T (aka.  a clone with CLONE_FILES). 
If P1 forks another process P2 (aka.  not a clone) while T is blocked in a
open() that should return file descriptor FD, then FD will be unusable in
P2.  This leads to strange behaviors in the context of P2: close(FD)
returns EBADF, while dup2(a_valid_fd, FD) returns EBUSY and of course FD is
never returned again by any syscall...

testcase:

#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sched.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <asm/page.h>

#define FIFO "/tmp/bug_fifo"
#define FD   0

/*
 * This program is meant to show that calling fork() while a clone spawned
 * with CLONE_FILES is blocked in open() makes a fd number unusable in the
 * child.
 *
 *
 *     Parent               Clone                Child
 *        |
 *   clone(CLONE_FILES)-