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Re: Is read intended to immediately terminate on close of its fd?
- From: Fredrik Noring <noring at nocrew dot org>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 21:51:07 +0200
- Subject: Re: Is read intended to immediately terminate on close of its fd?
- References: <20070809193835.A861A4D04C9@magilla.localdomain>
Roland,
Many thanks for your reply. I will discuss this elsewhere.
All the best,
Fredrik
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.