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From: rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
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Subject: Re: C news problem:  spacefor script
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Date: 11 Mar 91 15:49:06 GMT
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In article <1991Mar10.204709.10460@panix.uucp>, alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes:

  Henry Spencer suggests, in a followup message, that some old uuxqt's were
  sloppy about closing files. This is the case with A/UX, and (after months
  of headscratching) when I finally came up with a workaround, Richard Todd
  mentioned in a followup posting that MultiMaxes had this problem too.

This is an extreme example of vendors not fixing known bugs.  I dug into my
extensive uucp archives (Prof. Honeyman's office is next to mine) and found
that this was fixed nearly ten years ago, at least in the Berkeley lineage.
Here's the earliest version of this fix that I could find (who was aef?)

diff -c -r old/uuxqt.c /usr/src/cmd/uucp/uuxqt.c
*** old/uuxqt.c	Wed Mar  9 07:54:26 1983
--- /usr/src/cmd/uucp/uuxqt.c	Wed Feb 23 11:00:02 1983
***************
*** 202,207
  			sscanf(&buf[1], "%s", file);
  			unlink(file);
  		}
  		unlink(xfile);
  	}
  

--- 217,224 -----
  			sscanf(&buf[1], "%s", file);
  			unlink(file);
  		}
+ 		/* fix the hanging open fd! (dpk.bmd70@BRL 10-26-81) --aef */
+ 		fclose(xfp);
  		unlink(xfile);
  	}