Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 23:04:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: jmacd@deceit.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: stdio problem Message-ID: <199605022104.XAA15002@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <3259.831046296@critter.tfs.com> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "May 2, 96 02:11:36 pm"
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As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > close(0);
> > if(!freopen(argv[1], "r", stdin)) {
>
> doing a "close(0)" is bound to confuse the stdio library.
> don't do that.
More generally spoken, mixing any kind of stdio function (fopen(),
fclose(), fread(), fwrite(), printf() etc.) with low-level functions
(syscalls in Unix: open(), close(), read(), write()) is error-prone.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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