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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Van Holder on 12 Dec 2001 12:56:09 +0100)
Subject: Re: A buffering problem?
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> From: Tim Van Holder <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
> Date: 12 Dec 2001 12:56:09 +0100
> 
> > More accurately, it was closing file handle used by stdprn, behind the 
> > back of the buffered stdio machinery.
> 
> Actually, no:
> 
> #ifdef MSDOS
>   /*
>    * There is no way we can refer to them from Perl so close them to
>    * save space.  The other alternative would be to provide STDAUX and
>    * STDPRN filehandles.
>    */
>   (void)fclose(stdaux);
>   (void)fclose(stdprn);
> #endif
> 
> It's our stdio cleanup hook that finds the (non-existent) stdprn entry
> in the chain of FILEs first and closes it behind the back of the 'real'
> file with fd 3.

That's not what my records indicate.  The problem we saw there was
that a file handle was being closed as I wrote.  Perhaps that's a
different problem.

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