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Re: Getting a (FILE *) from a file descriptor

To: guile@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Getting a (FILE *) from a file descriptor
From: Chris Bitmead <cbitmead@ozemail.com.au>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 21:19:12 +1000
References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990624105405.18012J-100000@susy.amtp.cam.ac.uk>

Ian Grant wrote:

> fp = fdopen(origfd)
> 
>  .
>  . now we use fp to write to the file
>  .
> 
> tempfd = dup(origfd)
> flcose (fp)
> dup2(tempfd, origfd)
> 
> Is this it?

That's what I had in mind. As for being thread safe, as you mention, if
you've got threads writing to the fd while using the buffered FILE
you've got other more important problems than worrying about thread
safe.

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