On 6/2/08, James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> wrote: > I. Szczesniak writes: > > On 6/2/08, James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> wrote: > > > > It's also lifted if you call enable_extended_FILE_stdio(3C), use the > > > extendedFILE.so.1 preload, or 'F' is used as the last character in the > > > fopen(3C) mode string. > > > > FYI, enable_extended_FILE_stdio(3C) is incompatible to many > > applications, including coreutil. Using a FD > 256 crashes such > > applications. > > > "Coreutil"? As in GNU coreutils?
Yes. > If there's a problem here, and it's not just broken code in the > application, then filing bugs would help. I searched for, but did not > find, any references to this problem either at any external site or in > the bug databases. We've send a bug report to the coreutils maintainers in July 2007 and received the response that "this is a bug in Solaris stdio and that the extended FILE facility is a hack which the GNU coreutils maintainers are not going to support". Irek
