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On Thursday 29 November 2012 11:50:06 David Miller wrote: > From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@systemhalted.org> > > "fclose violates POSIX 2008 on seekable input streams" > > http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12724 > > - No patch exists, and too risky. > > Agreed. It's troubling to see that a major system component like Ruby > seems to be running into problems because of this. various distros (at least Arch, Gentoo, and OpenSUSE) have been carrying this revert patch since glibc-2.14: http://sources.gentoo.org/gentoo/src/patchsets/glibc/2.16.0/0068_all_glibc-2.16- glibc-revert-fseek-on-fclose.patch *looks* fairly low risk -mike
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