Re: Bug in exit()?

[Andreas Jaeger]

"Michael Kerrisk" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> I've tested the following with glibc 2.1.3 (Linux kernel 2.2.14, SuSE6.4), 
> but looking at the sources of glibc 2.2.3pre1, things don't look the same.
> 
> Ths is rather a "philosophical" bug report.  The exit() function does not 
> appear to close stdio streams, although SUSv3 and Austin do specifythis.  
> I discovered this while checking out some behaviours of vfork() - in a 
> vforked child, I did an exit(), and found that the standard I/O streams 
> *weren't* closed in the parent process when it resumed.  
> 
> I assume there are reasons things are done this way.  Are there plans to 
> change this behaviour?

Do you have a sample program that shows the problem?

Andreas
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