Subject: Re: freopen fails w/o complaining
From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <[email-masked]>
To: Rolf Maier <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 20:49:33 +0200

Hi Rolf,

Cygwin-xfree is the wrong list for this, where did you get the idea
that it was the right place?  I'll CC this to the right list, but note
that I myself am not subscribed there, so please CC me.

Rolf Maier <[email-masked]> writes:
> freopen does not always work, [...] Here is an example that won't
> work:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> main ()
> {
>   (void) freopen ("of1", "w", stdout);
>   (void) puts ("xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx");
>   exit (0);
> }
>
> freopen will silently quit.
>
> [...]
>
>  My cygwin release version (uname -a):
> CYGWIN_98-4.10 s6v4u3 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) 2003-03-18 09:20 i686 unknown unknown
> Cygwin

Your program exactly as above works fine here:

>>>>>>>>
c:\tmp> gcc freopen.c
gcc freopen.c

c:\tmp> a.exe
a.exe

c:\tmp> type of1
type of1
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

c:\tmp> uname -a
uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 caesar 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) 2003-03-18 09:20 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin

c:\tmp> 
<<<<<<<<

What did you do different?  What was your command-line?

Hope this helps, benny

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