Help! My fd's are incrementing by themselves!!

[George W. Leach]

In article <1990May4.125945.19579 at uunet!unhd> rg at unhd.unh.edu.UUCP (Roger Gonzalez ) writes:

>if ((fd = open(unix_path, O_RDONLY)) < 0) {
>    perror("unix-open");
>    return(ERROR);
>}

>if ((gfd = w_open("unix", worm_path, WRITEMODE) < 0) {
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
         gfd is *ALWAYS* assigned the value 1 because the relational
     operator has higher precedence than the assignment operator.

     This means you NEVER close the actual file descriptor which is
     not saved in gfd.

     Use the parens as in your first open.

George

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