cancelling fdopen(3)

[Stuart D. Gathman]

In article <88 at dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk>, stephen at comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir) writes:

> FILE *f_fd = fdopen (fd, "w");

> Now, what is the best way to release the FILE * structure to the free pool
> without closing the file attached to the original "fd"?

  sd = dup(fd)

either before or after the fdopen().
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Stuart D. Gathman	<..!seismo!dgis!bms-at!stuart>