Re: Bug in exit()?

[Ulrich Drepper]

"Michael Kerrisk" <address@hidden> writes:

> I see your idea, however the standard merely says that calling
> anything other than exec/_exit is undefined, not that it is
> disallowed.

Of course you can do this but don't be surprised if suddenly all your
harddrives are reformatted.  This is perfectly valid.

> In any case my report is not about vfork() - that is rather the way
> I discovered the problem with exit(): the standards explicitly say
> that exit() should close stdio file streams.

It is impossible to detect this from a correct program and the form of
the current implementation has very good reasons (security is one of
them).  There will be no change since none is necessary.

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