Re: short _file in stdio -> fd leak

To: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
Subject: Re: short _file in stdio -> fd leak
From: James Chacon <jmc%netbsd.org@localhost>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:05:38 -0500


On Mar 13, 2008, at 10:58 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 07:00:52AM -0500, James Chacon wrote:
I stared at the FILE struct for a bit and there's no buffer spaceanywherein this. If there had been a spare couple bytes somewhere we couldhave
split the int potentially and dealt with it that way.
No, even that would break the ABI. The problem is that fileno is amacro
by default and therefore older code can be expected to depend on the
current _file.


Crap...Ok, annoying.

James

References:
- short _file in stdio -> fd leak
  - From: Jan Schaumann
- Re: short _file in stdio -> fd leak
  - From: James Chacon
- Re: short _file in stdio -> fd leak
  - From: Joerg Sonnenberger

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