Hi all,
I am new to C programming,
All I just need to know is how to write the
following in C,
if (open STDOUT){
close the STDOUT
}
Can anyone guide me
Thanks
Nov 15 '05
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On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 10:18:21 +0000, Richard Tobin wrote: In article <ln************ @nuthaus.mib.or g>, Keith Thompson <ks***@mib.or g> wrote:
And given a sequence like this:
fclose(foo); bar = fopen("whatever "); fclose(foo);
it's possible (I think) that bar could point to a FILE object at the same address as the one released by the first fclose(). The second fclose() would then close bar. The description of freopen() says that it "attempts to close any file that is associated with the specified stream". The use of "any" suggests that the stream may already have been closed - compare fclose() which talks about "the" file.
When a stream is closed it ceases to be a stream, like when a malloc()'d
object is freed it ceases to be an object.
freopen() requires that you pass it a pointer to valid stream; a stream
that has been closed doesn't meet that requirement and you get undefined
behaviour. The same is true for all functions that take a FILE * argument,
except that you can pass a null pointer to those that say explicitly that
you can (fflush). In particular passing a pointer to anything that a
proper open stream to fclose() invokes undefined behaviour.
Lawrence
closed isn't a stream
any more (loke an object that has been freed isn't an object any more). -- Richard
Keith Thompson wrote: ro******@ibd.nr c-cnrc.gc.ca (Walter Roberson) writes:
In article <pa************ *************** *@gmail.com>, Robert Gamble <rg*******@gmai l.com> wrote:
On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 13:44:29 -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
So, the following is well-defined, assuming you pass a valid FILE*?
int my_fclose(FILE *f) { fclose(f); return(fclose(f )); }
Nope, the value of f is indeterminate after the first fclose, the second fclose invokes undefined behavior.
The value of f cannot change as a result of fclose, as it is passed by value. What f points -to- might change, of course.
The C standard says that FEOF is returned if an error is encountered, and places no constraints about what kind of error that might be.
If one drops over to POSIX.1 then fclose() is defined in terms of close() and write(), and close() is defined with a specific errno if the descriptor is not open; so for POSIX.1 at least, fclose() of something already closed is defined.
The C standard says:
A successful call to the fclose function causes the stream pointed to by stream to be flushed and the associated file to be closed. Any unwritten buffered data for the stream are delivered to the host environment to be written to the file; any unread buffered data are discarded. Whether or not the call succeeds, the stream is disassociated from the file and any buffer set by the setbuf or setvbuf function is disassociated from the stream (and deallocated if it was automatically allocated).
It looks like the effect of fclose() on a file that's already been closed isn't specified, which makes it undefined behavior.
And given a sequence like this:
fclose(foo); bar = fopen("whatever "); fclose(foo);
it's possible (I think) that bar could point to a FILE object at the same address as the one released by the first fclose(). The second fclose() would then close bar.
Or it might not, in which case when it deallocates any buffer it might
call free on a pointer that has already been freed thus causing anything
to happen and a good (IMHO) example of why the C standard leaves it
undefined.
POSIX is, of course, allowed to define what happens on POSIX systems
when you invoke some specific case that C leaves undefined, but as far
as C is concerned it is still undefined.
--
Flash Gordon
Living in interesting times.
Although my email address says spam, it is real and I read it.
On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 03:38:35 +0000, Walter Roberson wrote: In article <pa************ *************** *@gmail.com>, Robert Gamble <rg*******@gmai l.com> wrote:On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 13:44:29 -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote: So, the following is well-defined, assuming you pass a valid FILE*? int my_fclose(FILE *f) { fclose(f); return(fclose(f )); }
Nope, the value of f is indeterminate after the first fclose, the second fclose invokes undefined behavior.
The value of f cannot change as a result of fclose, as it is passed by value. What f points -to- might change, of course.
That is of course what I meant, thanks for the correction.
The C standard says that FEOF is returned if an error is encountered,
That's EOF, not FEOF.
and places no constraints about what kind of error that might be.
But it mandates that even in failure, the function disassociates the
stream from the file. If you are saying that the first fclose could fail
and the second one could succeed without invoking undefined behavior then
I'll have to disagree for now (the wording in the standard regarding
this is a little sticky, it may be possible to persuade me otherwise).
If one drops over to POSIX.1 then fclose() is defined in terms of close() and write(), and close() is defined with a specific errno if the descriptor is not open; so for POSIX.1 at least, fclose() of something already closed is defined.
Your logic is flawed, just because fclose performs a close (actually, the
"equivalent " of close() according to the standard), that doesn't mean that
is all it does. It could very well free other resources associated with
the stream for example. In any case, POSIX.1 states "After the call to
fclose(), any use of stream results in undefined behavior". I hope
you'll agree that calling fclose on a stream qualifies as a use of
that stream. This appears to include the case where fclose fails.
Robert Gamble
In article <pa************ ***********@net active.co.uk>,
Lawrence Kirby <lk****@netacti ve.co.uk> wrote: The description of freopen() says that it "attempts to close any file that is associated with the specified stream". The use of "any" suggests that the stream may already have been closed - compare fclose() which talks about "the" file.
When a stream is closed it ceases to be a stream, like when a malloc()'d object is freed it ceases to be an object.
A good theory, but it doesn't explain why freopen() says "any" instead
of "the".
-- Richard
In article <df**********@c anopus.cc.umani toba.ca>, ro******@ibd.nr c-cnrc.gc.ca (Walter Roberson) writes: In article <pa************ *************** *@gmail.com>, Robert Gamble <rg*******@gmai l.com> wrote:
Nope, the value of f is indeterminate after the first fclose, the second fclose invokes undefined behavior. The value of f cannot change as a result of fclose, as it is passed by value. What f points -to- might change, of course.
I believe the same principles apply here as with free():
The representation of the value of f cannot change (maybe; I'm not
sure anyone ever definitively established that for free), but the
interpretation of that value can. For example, if the implemen-
tation of fopen returns a malloc'd pointer, and fclose frees that
pointer, then any reference to the value of f after a successful
fclose invokes undefined behavior.
If one drops over to POSIX.1 then fclose() is defined in terms of close() and write(), and close() is defined with a specific errno if the descriptor is not open; so for POSIX.1 at least, fclose() of something already closed is defined.
Not if fclose() frees the FILE*. The fclose implementation may
never reach the call to close().
--
Michael Wojcik mi************@ microfocus.com
The guy who's fast in the mountain pass is the coolest.
-- _Initial D: Second Stage_
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 17:21:14 +0000 (UTC), ro******@ibd.nr c-cnrc.gc.ca
(Walter Roberson) wrote:
<snip> There is no specific call in C to determine whether a particular FILE* is open: you just try an operation on it and check to see if the operation failed with a code indicating the file is closed. Or for your purposes, as one of the posters pointed out, just go ahead and close it: you won't bomb if it is already closed.
As others have already said, there is no such guarantee in C; the
memory to which a FILE * points can be deallocated on fclose() and any
use of it (or formally even of the pointer) is undefined and can fail.
<OT> Even in SUS2 and 3, which are what I have to hand, [EBADF]
says "The file descriptor underlying stream is not valid." Note,
nothing about the _stream_ not being valid.
In SUS/POSIX, if you only close() the underlying fd but _not_ fclose()
the stdio stream, then at least operations that actually try to use
the underlying file seem guaranteed to reject with EBADF. </> STDOUT on the other hand is not a FILE*; it is generally part of an I/O extension in which STDOUT is a macro which evaluates to the "underlying descriptor" number of C's FILE* stdout . File descriptor numbers are not part of C itself; many operations with file descriptors are formalized in POSIX.1 . The typical operation to close a file associated with a file descriptor is close(). There is no standardized specific call to find out whether a file descriptor is open, but you can fstat() the descriptor and look to see whether you received the error that indicates the descriptor is not open.
Or fcntl(,F_GETFL) . Or lseek(,0,SEEK_C UR). The "low-level" I/O
operations are guaranteed to fail cleanly, no undefined behavior.
Note however that file descriptors can be and almost always are
reused. (Stdio FILE *'s also _can_ be reused, but only sometimes are.)
If you have a stale fd-number and test it before doing I/O, it may
have been reused by an open() (or socket() etc.) elsewhere in the
program, so your test mistakenly thinks it is "still open" but your
I/O does something almost certainly wrong. There is no adequate
alternative to remembering for yourself which files you have open.
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