stderr vs. STDERR_FILENO

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Wed Feb 25 03:23:00 GMT 2004


"Zack Weinberg" <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:

> I note that glibc does not do this, and there is wording in C99 which
> could be read to disallow it (7.19.5.4p4 - "[freopen] first attempts
> to close any file that is associated with the specified stream") so
> Mark's concern is valid.

POSIX is even more explicit about that.

Andreas.

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