Debian bug report logs - #784 , boring messages ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#784: Infelicities in fopen manpage Reply-To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson), debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk Resent-Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 11:33:16 GMT Resent-Message-ID: X-Debian-PR-Package: manpages X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 11:33:16 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail id 041011324429799; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 11:32:44 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0ryHf1-0006g5C; Mon, 10 Apr 95 04:29 PDT Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA07133 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Mon, 10 Apr 1995 04:29:24 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #30) id m0ryHKr-000C00C; Mon, 10 Apr 95 12:08 BST Received: by chiark id m0ry5ET-0000YjZ (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.30); Sun, 9 Apr 95 23:13 BST Message-Id: Date: Sun, 9 Apr 95 23:13 BST From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Debian bugs submission address Package: manpages Version: 1.5-1 The manpage for fopen contains: Reads and writes may be intermixed on read/write streams in any order, and do not require an intermediate seek as in previous versions of stdio. This is not portable to other systems, however, and may not work under Linux (someone should find out and fix this manpage); ANSI C requires that a file positioning function intervene between output and input, unless an input operation encounters end-of-file. Also, the description of fdopen is: The fdopen function associates a stream with the existing file descriptor, fildes. The mode of the stream must be compatible with the mode of the file descriptor. This does not make it clear whether fdopen dup's the file descriptor you give it. In other words, it doesn't tell you whether calling fclose is sufficient to close the underlying file descriptor(s) (it seems that it is - if you try close on the original fd after using fdopen/fclose you get EBADF). Ian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) Subject: Bug#784: Acknowledgement (was: Infelicities in fopen manpage) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian GNU/Linux. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers' mailing list for their attention; they will reply in due course. If you wish to submit further information on your problem, please send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, but please ensure that the Subject line of your message starts with "Bug#784" or "Re: Bug#784" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov