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Fun with file descriptors

Posted Sep 15, 2007 6:40 UTC (Sat) by schabi (subscriber, #14079)
In reply to: Fun with file descriptors by RobSeace
Parent article: Fun with file descriptors

You wrote:

For instance, this common behavior is fairly reasonable:

close (0);
open ("/dev/null", O_RDONLY);

This one is broken as sonn as threads are involved - typical race condition, another thread could do anything between close(0) and open().

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