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From: Zack Weinberg <zack@owlfolio.org>
To: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Resource use fopen-vs-freopen
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2022 13:55:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83b50ed9-9391-2413-6375-fe5e4650d169@owlfolio.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <08776f09871ef817669410c7b1a26122e3c2c75b.camel@gentoo.org>

On 2022-12-04 4:34 PM, David Seifert via Libc-alpha wrote:
...
>    void reset_std_streams(void) {
>      stdin = fopen("/dev/null", "r");
>    }
...
>    void reset_std_streams(void) {
>      freopen("/dev/null", "r", stdin);
>    }
...

> When comparing the total tally of all resources used at point A in
> snippet 1 and point B in snippet 2, is there an actual difference?

Yes.  Snippet 1 leaks the old FILE object and, critically, *does not 
change file descriptor 0*, which remains open on the old stdin.

zw

      reply	other threads:[~2022-12-05 18:55 UTC|newest]

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2022-12-04 21:34 David Seifert
2022-12-05 18:55 ` Zack Weinberg [this message]

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