Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 13:27:16 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jmacd@deceit.xcf.berkeley.edu (Josh MacDonald) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: stdio problem Message-ID: <199605022027.NAA12665@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199605020858.BAA05189@deceit.xcf.berkeley.edu> from "Josh MacDonald" at May 2, 96 01:58:26 am
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> In the following code:
>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char** argv)
> {
> if(argc != 2) {
> fprintf(stderr, "no\n");
> exit(1);
> }
>
> close(0);
> if(!freopen(argv[1], "r", stdin)) {
> perror("freopen");
> exit(1);
> }
> while(fgetc(stdin) != EOF) { }
> if(ferror(stdin)) {
> perror("stdin");
> exit(1);
> }
> printf("its okay\n");
> exit(0);
> }
>
> FreeBSD exits "stdin: Bad file descriptor"
> Linux, SunOS, ULTRIX, PTX, Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, etc... all report
> "its okay".
>
> I am wondering if either FreeBSD, the rest of the OS's, or no one
> is "wrong". The pracical application here is that if you close 0
> and then exec GNU diff3 you'll encounter this problem. Is it legal
> to close your standard input and then fork/exec other programs?
> I was under the impression that is was. Am I defying the laws of
> physics if I close(0) and then fork/exec a program expecting to
> maybe use its standard input with freopen? I don't think so.
What is argument 1 to the program?
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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