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Re: Sticky EOF breaks stream concatenation via dup2 [BZ #23636]
Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> writes:
>> Getting back to the particular software broken, cups-filter, how did
>> it work on non-glibc systems without this bug? Was the code being used
>> glibc-specific? Or was it just untested elsewhere?
> The current dependencies of cups-filters look sufficiently heavy that
> it's possible that only glibc targets were used with it.
cups-filters is included in the FreeBSD ports collection, but they've
been carrying a patch since 2015 that adds clearerr(stdin); in the
appropriate place:
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/print/cups-filters/files/patch-filter_foomatic-rip_foomaticrip.c?revision=411031&view=markup
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