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From: igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: stdio broken in SysV?
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Date: 26 Feb 90 09:32:10 GMT
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rpw3@rigden.UUCP (Robert P. Warnock) writes:
> This is a well-known problem to anyone who has ported any Berkeley networking
> applications to System V. IMHO, Sys5's broken, but it's that way in all the
> S5R2's I've seen. (Did it make it into S5R3? Will it still be there in S5R4?)

Yes.  I ported IDA Sendmail to 5.3.2 last week and hit this problem.
As previously stated, dup()ing the file descriptor is a cure.

ian
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