diff --git a/coreutils-colorls.csh b/coreutils-colorls.csh
index ea2be8b..fd58391 100755
--- a/coreutils-colorls.csh
+++ b/coreutils-colorls.csh
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 # color-ls initialization
-if ( $?LS_COLORS ) then
-  if ( "$LS_COLORS" != "" ) then
-     #do not override user specified LS_COLORS and use them
+if ( $?USER_LS_COLORS ) then
+  if ( "$USER_LS_COLORS" != "" ) then
+     #when USER_LS_COLORS defined do not override user 
+     #specified LS_COLORS and use them
      goto finish
   endif
 endif
diff --git a/coreutils-colorls.sh b/coreutils-colorls.sh
index ed8a365..2f58eef 100755
--- a/coreutils-colorls.sh
+++ b/coreutils-colorls.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # color-ls initialization
 
-#do not override user LS_COLORS, but use them.
-if [ -z "$LS_COLORS" ]; then
+#when USER_LS_COLORS defined do not override user LS_COLORS, but use them.
+if [ -z "$USER_LS_COLORS" ]; then
   
   alias ll='ls -l' 2>/dev/null
   alias l.='ls -d .*' 2>/dev/null
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ if [ -z "$LS_COLORS" ]; then
   # Existence of $COLORS already checked above.
   [ -n "$COLORS" ] || return
 
-  eval `dircolors --sh "$COLORS" 2>/dev/null`
+  eval "`dircolors --sh "$COLORS" 2>/dev/null`"
   [ -z "$LS_COLORS" ] && return
   egrep -qi "^COLOR.*none" $COLORS >/dev/null 2>/dev/null && return
 fi
diff --git a/coreutils-dddoubleclose.patch b/coreutils-dddoubleclose.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3e37027
--- /dev/null
+++ b/coreutils-dddoubleclose.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+diff -urNp coreutils-6.9-orig/src/dd.c coreutils-6.9/src/dd.c
+--- coreutils-6.9-orig/src/dd.c	
++++ coreutils-6.9/src/dd.c	
+@@ -391,6 +391,25 @@ static char const ebcdic_to_ascii[] =
+   '\070', '\071', '\372', '\373', '\374', '\375', '\376', '\377'
+ };
+ 
++/* True if we need to close the standard output *stream*.  */
++static bool close_stdout_required = true;
++
++/* The only reason to close the standard output *stream* is if
++   parse_long_options fails (as it does for --help or --version).
++   In any other case, dd uses only the STDOUT_FILENO file descriptor,
++   and the "cleanup" function calls "close (STDOUT_FILENO)".
++   Closing the file descriptor and then letting the usual atexit-run
++   close_stdout function call "fclose (stdout)" would result in a
++   harmless failure of the close syscall (with errno EBADF).
++   This function serves solely to avoid the unnecessary close_stdout
++   call, once parse_long_options has succeeded.  */
++static void
++maybe_close_stdout (void)
++{
++  if (close_stdout_required)
++    close_stdout ();
++}
++
+ void
+ usage (int status)
+ {
+@@ -1639,12 +1658,14 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
+   textdomain (PACKAGE);
+ 
+   /* Arrange to close stdout if parse_long_options exits.  */
+-  atexit (close_stdout);
++  atexit (maybe_close_stdout);
+ 
+   page_size = getpagesize ();
+ 
+   parse_long_options (argc, argv, PROGRAM_NAME, PACKAGE, VERSION,
+ 		      usage, AUTHORS, (char const *) NULL);
++  close_stdout_required = false;
++
+   if (getopt_long (argc, argv, "", NULL, NULL) != -1)
+     usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
+ 
diff --git a/coreutils.spec b/coreutils.spec
index f176ab6..50b8221 100644
--- a/coreutils.spec
+++ b/coreutils.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Summary: The GNU core utilities: a set of tools commonly used in shell scripts
 Name:    coreutils
 Version: 6.9
-Release: 15%{?dist}
+Release: 16%{?dist}
 License: GPLv2+
 Group:   System Environment/Base
 Url:     http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ Patch1: coreutils-futimens.patch
 Patch2: coreutils-ls-x.patch
 Patch3: coreutils-6.9-cp-i-u.patch
 Patch4: coreutils-6.9-du-ls-upstream.patch
+Patch5: coreutils-dddoubleclose.patch
 
 # Our patches
 Patch100: coreutils-chgrp.patch
@@ -94,6 +95,7 @@ the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.
 %patch2 -p1 -b .ls-x
 %patch3 -p1 -b .cp-i-u
 %patch4 -p1 -b .du-ls
+%patch5 -p1 -b .doubleclose
 
 # Our patches
 %patch100 -p1 -b .chgrp
@@ -293,6 +295,10 @@ fi
 /sbin/runuser
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Mar 11 2008 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik@redhat.com> 6.9-16
+- other way to keep user defined LS_COLORS(#430827)
+- fixed harmless double close stdout in dd(#436368)
+
 * Thu Mar  6 2008 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik@redhat.com> - 6.9-15
 - rebuild / unspotted 6.9-14 build failure on ppc64