Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/07/18/15:11:56
Dave Korn wrote:
> ----Original Message----
>
>>From: Eric Blake
>>Sent: 15 July 2005 00:14
>
>
>>POSIX requires that freopen(NULL, mode, f) reopen f in the new
>>mode, and allows implementations the option of not even closing
>>f in the first place. But in cygwin, it is failing with EFAULT, which is
>>not even one of the errors allowed by POSIX.
>>
>>http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/freopen.html
>>
>>#include <stdio.h>
>>#include <errno.h>
>>int main(void)
>>{
>> FILE* f = freopen (NULL, "rb", stdin); /* Ensure that stdin is binary
>> */ printf ("file is %s, errno %d:%s\n", f ? "good" : "null", errno,
>> strerror(errno));
>> return 0;
>>}
>>
>>CVS coreutils recently switched to this idiom, replacing its former
>>use of the nonstandard <io.h> and setmode() with something
>>that is required by the standards. But until this bug is fixed, CVS
>>coreutils will not work with cygwin. The strace in cygwin shows
>>that newlib tried to perform open(NULL), which is the cause of
>>the EFAULT.
>
>
>
> I could take a look at this over the weekend if nobody gets to it first :)
>
A little late, but please do. I'm a little busy at the moment.
-- Jeff J.
>
> cheers,
> DaveK
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