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File descriptor error when exiting emacs on android 11

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From: Henrik Grimler <henrik <at> grimler.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 47596 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47596: File descriptor error when exiting emacs on android 11
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2021 19:29:52 +0200

Hi,

I received feedback on the android issue tracker 
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/184380442 
that the snippet:

> > #include <stdio.h>
> > int main()
> > {
> >   fdopen (2, "w");
> >   fclose (stderr);
> > }

is problematic, because:

> yes. you have two FILE*s that both think they own file descriptor 2.
> depending on what you're actually trying to do, you probably meant to
> use freopen(3) instead?
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/fopen.3.html

Does freopen make sense for buferr?

> > In emacs fdopen is run in init_standard_fds, where we have
> > 
> >   force_open (STDERR_FILENO, O_RDONLY);
> > 
> >   /* Set buferr if possible on platforms defining _PC_PIPE_BUF, as
> >      they support the notion of atomic writes to pipes.  */
> >   #ifdef _PC_PIPE_BUF
> >     buferr = fdopen (STDERR_FILENO, "w");
> >     if (buferr)
> >       setvbuf (buferr, NULL, _IOLBF, 0);
> >   #endif
> > }
> 
> This just creates a copy of stderr that has special buffering. 
> Again,
> entirely valid for a C program to do that.

I probably should have included a bit more context in the android bug
report to better show what the code does. 

Best regards,
Henrik Grimler

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