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From: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
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On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 05:29:24PM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> > > There is no reason to change from the perfectly correct & well-documented
> > > behaviour BSD has had for 10-15 years. The original poster's example provides
> > > a good argument for this: it detects application bugs.
> > 
> > I agree.

Moreover, I agree that it is incorrect (i.e. beyond of standard scope) 
assumption from program side, but what the fix you suggest? There is no 
_standard_ way to detect by given FILE * pointer is it R or W, there is no 
such standard stdio macro.

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Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/