Derek Robert Price writes: > > It's been awhile since I played concurrently with descriptors and > streams, but I thought I recalled that the only real issue was that they > were using the same descriptor, so operations on one affected the other, > as opposed to a dup() of a file descriptor, which keeps track of two > sets of data about the file, two modes, two pointers, etc.
On the contrary, dup() just gives you another handle to the same open file description -- the modes, pointers, etc. are *shared* by both fds. To get independence, you have to open the file again. -Larry Jones I can feel my brain beginning to atrophy already. -- Calvin _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
