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From: bugzilla-daemon-590EEB7GvNiWaY/ihj7yzEB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org
To: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: [Bug 91931] fflush(3) is misleading about input streams
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 08:31:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bug-91931-11311-Hc8f73Wj4f@https.bugzilla.kernel.org/> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-91931-11311-3bo0kxnWaOQUvHkbgXJLS5sdmw4N0Rt+2LY78lusg7I@public.gmane.org/>

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91931

--- Comment #3 from Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> ---
(In reply to cubbi from comment #0)

> On a very minor note, fflush(3) also claims that
> "The standards do not specify the behavior for input streams"
> 
> This is no longer precisely correct; POSIX specifies behavior for seekable
> input streams to move fileno's offset to match FILE's offset and undo all
> ungetc's:
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fflush.html and
> glibc conforms to that (or tries to,
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5994 is still open)

Thanks. I modified the text to note that POSIX.1-2008 does add specification
for input streams.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-28  8:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-23 16:15 [Bug 91931] New: fflush(3) is misleading about input streams bugzilla-daemon-590EEB7GvNiWaY/ihj7yzEB+6BGkLq7r
     [not found] ` <bug-91931-11311-3bo0kxnWaOQUvHkbgXJLS5sdmw4N0Rt+2LY78lusg7I@public.gmane.org/>
2015-01-25 19:53   ` [Bug 91931] " bugzilla-daemon-590EEB7GvNiWaY/ihj7yzEB+6BGkLq7r
2015-01-27  4:35   ` bugzilla-daemon-590EEB7GvNiWaY/ihj7yzEB+6BGkLq7r
2015-01-28  8:31   ` bugzilla-daemon-590EEB7GvNiWaY/ihj7yzEB+6BGkLq7r [this message]
2015-01-28  8:33   ` bugzilla-daemon-590EEB7GvNiWaY/ihj7yzEB+6BGkLq7r

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