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Re: stderr vs. STDERR_FILENO

Andreas Schwab wrote:

Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:



(2) stderr freopen'd (and not attached to fd 2)



stderr freopen'd means it is still attached to fd 2.


Maybe on some implementations, but that's not required.

Typical implementations do a close, followed by an open.

In threaded code, some other thread might grab the fd between the close and the open.

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