> > Also, should we make the
> > closeout module depend on the atexit module?
>
> I'd say not, since we assume C89 or better these days. As I
> understand it the atexit module is needed only for SunOS 4 and
> earlier, which is no longer of concern.
Should we go ahead and delete the atexit module
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is a behavior change - previously, you could use close_stdout outside of
> an atexit handler, and still have atexit handlers invoked on error.
Yes, that's true.
> Should we document this change in the comment at the start of
> close_stdout (as oppos
Paul Eggert CS.UCLA.EDU> writes:
>
> How about something like this change? It's simple, and it fixes the
> (perhaps-theoretical) problem. One price we pay is that you must be
> careful about the order of atexit calls, but coreutils already invokes
> atexit (close_stdout) first, so that won't b
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I assume that Paul forgot these files when porting from coreutils, so I am
> checking this in (as I found a bug in m4 that would be solved by using
> mkstemp_safer).
Thanks, yes, I did forget.
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It must be portable in practice.
> There are tests of this behavior that are run as part of
> coreutils' "make check" (see tests/help-version), so I doubt
> we'll see any problem.
I'm a bit more cautious here. I think it's possible, for example,
that if
Even after using stdio-safer, m4 still has a bug where stderr can be clobbered;
it is the third case in:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-m4/2006-07/msg00021.html
I traced it to the fact that we don't have tmpfile_safer. I based my
implementation on Paul's fopen trick, which uses at most o
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> POSIX states that:
> If, at normal process termination, a function registered by the atexit()
> function is called and a portable application needs to stop further exit()
> processing, it must call the _exit() function or the _Exit() function or one
> of
> t
POSIX states that:
If, at normal process termination, a function registered by the atexit()
function is called and a portable application needs to stop further exit()
processing, it must call the _exit() function or the _Exit() function or one of
the functions which cause abnormal process termin
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I assume that Paul forgot these files when porting from coreutils, so I am
checking this in (as I found a bug in m4 that would be solved by using
mkstemp_safer).
lib/ChangeLog:
2006-07-21 Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* stdlib-safer.h: New
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:52:30 -0700
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Derek R. Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote:
> >> OpenBSD is an example, but there is more, a lot of system doesn't
> >> support AI_ADDRCONFIG or other specific flags, and thus would be
>
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