Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 10:38:48 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: zero fill the eof gap (complete patch)
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On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Mark E. wrote:

> > Seems to suggest that __fd_properties will have to be set for a handle
> > before it can use the gap filling feature.  But where is the code
> > which sets up __fd_properties for any given handle?
> 
> The routine is called by open().

Ah, sorry, I forgot that.

However, that means file handles inherited from the parent process,
including redirected standard handles, will not be zero-filled.  Perhaps 
we should handle those as well, somehow.