Re: Why does close_stdout close stdout and stderr?

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 5/6/19 2:05 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>> On 4/29/19 2:45 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>>> I get that error checking is important.  But why not just use ferror and
>>>> fflush?  Closing the streams is excessive and tends to introduce
>>>> use-after-free issues, as evidenced by the sanitizer workarounds.

> This means that for Linux at least, close_stdout should just call
> fflush, not fclose.

What is the problem?  I mean if it is use-after-free as mentioned in
the first mail, then write() after fflush() without error checking via
another fflush() is in the same category, isn't it?

Have a nice day,
Berny