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Re: Is read intended to immediately terminate on close of its fd?
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- To: Fredrik Noring <noring at nocrew dot org>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 12:38:35 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Is read intended to immediately terminate on close of its fd?
This is not a library issue, and nothing about it will be affected by
discussing it here. The behavior you mention is determined by the kernel.
How it behaves now is correct under the POSIX standard.