From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 13:54:23 -0500
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Subject: Re: zero fill the eof gap (complete patch)
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> 
> 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.

I think so too. There are two solutions I can think of. One is to add the 
call '__set_fd_properties(fd, 0, 0)' to [l]lseek.c to create the structure. 
Another is to instead use a flag with '__file_handle_modes'.

Mark