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Re: Getting a (FILE *) from a file descriptor


Seems a shame to waste a fd carelessly. How about
dup()
fclose()
dup2()
upon file close so that the fd is only wasted for a fraction of a
second.

Ken Raeburn wrote:
> 
> Ian Grant <I.A.N.Grant@damtp.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > Oops, it's fdopen isn't it? I was even staring at the man page. Sorry.
> 
> Well, fdopen is okay, but calling fclose will result in the file
> descriptor being closed.  A dup and fdopen would probably work more
> cleanly.  (You are going to make sure the FILE* gets closed, right?)
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