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[Bug stdio/12836] fmemopen(buf,size,"w+b") isn't binary
- From: "eblake at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 04:24:55 +0000
- Subject: [Bug stdio/12836] fmemopen(buf,size,"w+b") isn't binary
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- References: <bug-12836-131 at http dot sourceware dot org/bugzilla/>
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12836
--- Comment #7 from Eric Blake <eblake at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Eric Blake from comment #6)
> > So, technically, I think an implementation _could_ treat w+b and wb+ as
> > different if it so desired but it would have to document that.
> >
> > Of course, it would probably be easier to fix the code to make them
> > identical :-)
>
> No, we WANT them to be different, per the adjustments to POSIX.
Sorry, speaking too soon. We want 'w' and 'wb' to be different; but we want
'w+b' and 'wb+' to be identical, as that is what the next version of POSIX will
require. Glibc has to be fixed before it will comply with what is written in
POSIX bug 456.
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