sticky EOF

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Mon May 8 08:43:55 AEST 1989


In article <2017 at thor.acc.stolaf.edu> mike at thor.acc.stolaf.edu (Mike Haertel) writes:
>After EOF is returned for the first time, Berkeley stdio functions
>will not attempt to read further input if the user tries, but will
>instead continue returning EOF.

Yeah, we went all over this many moons ago.  Sticky EOF was
introduced at one point by Bill Shannon.  It's not considered
proper behavior and should have been removed by now.  (Chris
Torek should be able to tell us if it was.)



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