Re: Out of ptys

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 25 Aug 1998 19:16:12 +0100 (BST)


> As previously reported to the glibc folks, glibc allows a write to
> a closed file descriptor. It was my understanding that this was

void main()
{
if(write(34,"Hello",5)!=5)
perror("eek");
}

./a.out
eek: Bad file descriptor

Glibc appears to work beautifully. And in fact there isnt actually
any glibc code really wrapping write() that would allow a bug to occur.

Alan

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