Re: STDOUT_FILENO and STDERR_FILENO

[John Emmas <johne53 tiscali co uk>]

On 20/05/2013 14:44, Erik van Pienbroek wrote:
> So when there is no valid stdout/stderr the fileno call will return
> either -1 or -2. When this value is passed as argument to a write call,
> then the write call itself will fail with an 'invalid file descriptor',
> but other than that there's shouldn't be any major issues with it.

Hmmm... there might be one.

A few lines further down, 'total' gets incremented like this:-

      total += nwrote;

So if nwrote == (-1) we'll probably get stuck in an endless loop :-(

John