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From:	Georg <dosusb AT googlemail DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: freopen
Date:	Sat, 5 May 2012 07:27:54 -0700 (PDT)
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On May 5, 2:22 pm, Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroe DOT  DOT  DOT  AT t-online DOT de> wrote:
> On 05.05.2012 08:01, Georg wrote:
>
> > "FILE *freopen(const char *filename, const char *mode, FILE *file);
>
> > Description
>
> > This function closes file if it was open, then opens a new file like
> > fopen(filename, mode) (see section fopen) but it reuses file."
>
> > I read this description that the third parameter of freopen is closed,
> > in my example it is stdout. The resulting handle is associated with
> > stdout.dat and I do not see that this gets closed.
>
> I think you overlooked that in your example, you called freopen()
> _twice_.  The first time you replaced the stdout handle by the file
> "stdout.dat", the second time you closed that and replaced stdout by a
> handle to the console.
>
> When your example fclosed() the FILE *f returned by the first freopen(),
> you actually closed stdout itself.

I guess I still do not understand it completely but when I remove
fclose(f); it works. And since you said the second freopen() closes
"stdout.dat" I do not need to explicitly close that.

Thank you. Georg

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