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On 01/15/2014 08:28 AM, tednolan AT bellsouth DOT net wrote:

> Well, all I can say in this instance, is that arguably conforming to
> the bare letter of the standard (if that's in fact what is happening)
> is not "the right thing".  People certainly don't expect that stdio
> file pointers that exist at fork() time and which are never "used" by a
> child will be reset in the parent.  I mean, if they can't even be fclose(=
)-ed
> to take them out of the picture, what chance have you got? -:)
>=20
> FWIW, FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris all compile and run the test program
> with the behavoir I expect..

Rather, FreeBSD and Linux share the same behavior of having intuitive
action of not resetting the underlying fd position, but violating POSIX
in the process; while Solaris DOES reset the fd and would expose the
same undefined behavior in the sample program.

--=20
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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