Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I think the Hurd libc implementation of tmpfile is at fault. > > > POSIX.1 says there must be a file descriptor. Try this libc patch. > > > > Why do it this way? I would prefer having fileno generate the file > > descriptor, since most uses of tmpfile will probably not need one. > > That was my first thought too. But POSIX.1 says that tmpfile "shall > allocate a file descriptor as fopen does".
Sure, but there is *no* difference between doing so immediately and doing so upon demand... _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
