greg wrote:
You can't read and write with the same stdio file object at the same time. Odd things tend to happen if you try.
I believe the C standard specifies that the behavior of mixed reads and writes is undefined without intervening seek and/or flush, even if the seek is ignored (as it is on some Unix systems). With two threads, the timing is undetermined.
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