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Re: sed bug on seekable stdin


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: sed bug on seekable stdin
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:49:49 +0100
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Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> According to Bob Proulx on 12/17/2006 12:13 PM:
>> 
>> AFAIK fflush() is not needed in input streams as its purpose is to
>> flush pending output buffers and input streams have none.
>
> Wrong.  According to POSIX, fflush followed by fseek is required to have
> the side effect of setting the byte offset of the underlying fd, even on
> input streams.

fflush on an input stream has undefined behaviour.

Andreas.

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