Re: segfault in io.close and a plea for pipes
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- Subject: Re: segfault in io.close and a plea for pipes
- From: Rob Kendrick <lua-l@...>
- Date: 2005年5月23日 15:08:48 +0100
On Mon, 2005年05月23日 at 13:26 +0100, David Given wrote:
> On Monday 23 May 2005 03:33, William Trenker wrote:
> [...]
> > int ok = (pclose(f) != -1) || (fclose(f) == 0); // <<<---
> > PROBLEM IS HERE
>
> Yes, this is a known problem (it fails on my platform, too). It's actually a
> Posix violation, but just happens to work on most platforms.
>
> The problem is that fixing would require some pretty hefty rewriting of the
> way files are managed (because you need to store whether the FILE* came from
> popen() or fopen(), which means you need another word of storage, which means
> you can't store the FILE* in a lightuserdata), and, well, no-one's got around
> to doing it yet.
>
> But it's good to know that it fails on uclibc as well as my wacky OS.
We've had it explode on Linux/glibc. And boy, did it take ages to track
down. There's been dicussion on this before:
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2004-07/msg00430.html
Although I seem to recall that somebody pointed out an issue with
Daniel's solution. (It didn't work on some other OSes.)
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Rob Kendrick, Pepperfish Ltd. +44 (0)845 226 4146 www.pepperfish.net
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