On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Marti Raudsepp <ma...@juffo.org> wrote:
> Here's the second patch from my coccicheck run. Originally it flagged
> the fact that the opened file in psql's process_file() wasn't being
> closed in the ON_ERROR_STOP path, but there seem to be two more
> unintended behaviors here.
>
> (1) In the error path, the value of pset.inputfile wasn't being
> properly restored. The caller does free(fname) on line 786, so
> psql.inputfile would point to unallocated memory.
>
> (2) The more significant issue is that stdin *was closed in the
> success return path. So when you run a script with two "\i -" lines,
> the first "\q" would close stdin and the next one would fail with:
>    psql:-:0: could not read from input file: Bad file descriptor
>
> In fact, this means that stdin was being accessed after being
> fclose()d, which is undefined behavior per ANSI C, though it seems to
> work just fine on Linux.
>
> The new behavior requires the same amount of "\q"s as the number of
> executions of '-' because stdin is never closed.

Thanks, committed.

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