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Re: Bug in exit()?
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Ulrich Drepper |
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Re: Bug in exit()? |
Date: |
24 Apr 2001 13:20:22 -0700 |
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"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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