[GOLDSTAR] Re: fflush(NULL) clobbers input streams

[Ken Brown]

On 7/19/2017 1:03 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 19 10:45, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Jul 18 22:16, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> On 7/18/2017 6:41 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>>>> On 7/18/2017 3:21 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
>>>>> Corinna Vinschen writes:
>>>>>> Oh, and a plain C testcase, of course...
>>>>>
>>>>> Call that fflush.c:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>> Then run:
>>>>>
>>>>> gcc fflush.c -o fflush
>>>>> cat fflush.c | ./fflush 2>/dev/null > fflush.out
>>>>> diff fflush.c fflush.out
>>>>>
>>>>> If things are working, fflush.c and fflush.out should be identical.
>>>>> Currently only the first line makes it into fflush.out on Cygwin.
>>>>
>>>> I've checked that the 2017-03-08 snapshot is good and the 2017-03-10
>>>> snapshot is bad.  I'll bisect further when I get a chance
>>>
>>> Done:
>>>
>>> 44b1746a41921533d27aca414a9188314cb725b6 is the first bad commit
>>> commit 44b1746a41921533d27aca414a9188314cb725b6
>>> Author: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
>>> Date:   Fri Mar 10 20:21:09 2017 +0100
>>>
>>>      errno: Stop using _impure_ptr->_errno completely
>>>
>>>      We use errno AKA _REENT->_errno since the last century and only set
>>>      _impure_ptr->_errno for backward compat.  Stop that.  Also, remove
>>>      the last check for _impure_ptr->_errno in Cygwin code.
>>>
>>> Ken
>>
>> Achim, thanks for the testcase.  Ken, thanks for bisecting.  You're
>> my hero!
>>
>> I reverted the patch and created new developer snapshots.
> 
> I forgot the gold star.  Thanks again, Ken!

Glad I could do it.  And thanks for the hero comment.  You made my day.

Ken