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To: Josh MacDonald <jmacd@deceit.xcf.berkeley.edu>
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Subject: Re: stdio problem 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 May 1996 01:58:26 MST."
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Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 14:11:36 +0000
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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>   close(0);
>   if(!freopen(argv[1], "r", stdin)) {

doing a "close(0)" is bound to confuse the stdio library.
don't do that.
freopen will close the filedesriptor and thud DTRT.

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