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Re: [Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@activestate.com>] ferror() after fread() on a FILE* opened for write

>>>>> Ulrich Drepper writes:

Uli> hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) writes:
>> This patch should pass the test. The problem is _IO_file_xsgetn
>> and _IO_XXX_file_xsputn may call read/write directly.

Uli> This is not necessary.  Don't add it.

Are you sure?  Check the current Posix draft of the Austin Group for
fread/fgetc and fwrite/fputc.  They explicitly mention EBADF for:
  
  The filedescriptor underlying stream is not a valid file descriptor
  open for reading (writing with fwrite/fputc).

But this is marked as a new addition.

Andreas
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