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Re: Getting a (FILE *) from a file descriptor

Chris Bitmead wrote:

> Seems a shame to waste a fd carelessly. How about
> dup()
> fclose()
> dup2()
> upon file close so that the fd is only wasted for a fraction of a
> second.

That fraction of a second opens a wide door for race conditions in
multi-threaded programs.

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