[Groff] Re: grops and grohtml problems on vista (walter harms)

[Efraim Yawitz]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 7:00 PM, walter harms <address@hidden>


> according to the man page (i hope that m$ did not break specs) that means
> the "mode" argument
> is wrong. perhaps you can add a message like:
> /* adjust to your needs !*/
>   fprintf("fdopen mode(%s):%s",mode,strerror(errno));
>
>
> I just looked again at the line which is failing:


> src\libs\libgroff\tmpfile.cpp:179:
>
>   FILE *fp = fdopen(fd, FOPEN_RWB); // many callers of xtmpfile use binary
> I/O
>
> and this already says what the mode is, i.e. "w+", which should be
perfectly legal.

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