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Re: Question on stdio standard behaviour (Bugreport libc/755)

To: Wolfram Gloger <wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de>
Subject: Re: Question on stdio standard behaviour (Bugreport libc/755)
From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour@cygnus.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 10:31:17 +0100
CC: libc-hacker@cygnus.com
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References: <u8yasdy76r.fsf@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> <19980825083732.4818.qmail@md.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de>

Wolfram Gloger wrote:
> 
> > we've received the appended bugreport.  The essence is that "perl
> > expects that fclose followed by fopen will return the same pointer".
> > This works on most platforms but not with libc5 and glibc2.
> 
> Considering that FILE structures are allocated with malloc(), this is
> a completely bogus assumption, IMHO.

Absolutely. And it also begs the question, why don't they use freopen()?
That's what its for.

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References:
- Question on stdio standard behaviour (Bugreport libc/755)
  - From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
- Re: Question on stdio standard behaviour (Bugreport libc/755)
  - From: Wolfram Gloger <wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de>

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