Question on stdio standard behaviour (Bugreport libc/755)

[Jonathan Larmour]

Wolfram Gloger wrote:
> 
> > we've received the appended bugreport.  The essence is that "perl
> > expects that fclose followed by fopen will return the same pointer".
> > This works on most platforms but not with libc5 and glibc2.
> 
> Considering that FILE structures are allocated with malloc(), this is
> a completely bogus assumption, IMHO.

Absolutely. And it also begs the question, why don't they use freopen()?
That's what its for.

Jonathan L.
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