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Re: short _file in stdio -> fd leak



On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 01:31:32PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> But that older code is already broken in the face of fds over 65535,
> and maybe over 32767, so I see nothing wrong with leaving the current
> _file's place in the binary structure as just the low bits of the fd.

See my comment on source-changes about how this can be done with minor
fallout.

> Or we could blow off ABI compatability.  We've done that before.

That's a libc major bump in this case.

Joerg


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