My problem with fdopen and sockets........

[Chris Torek]

In article <9556 at cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> wen-king at cit-vax.Caltech.Edu
(King Su) writes:
>in  = fdopen(soc,"r");
>out = fdopen(soc,"w");

If you use this technique, be aware that fclose(in) also closes out's
file descriptor, without giving it a chance to flush any pending data.
Likewise, fclose(out) closes in's fd.  There is also no guarantee that
stdio will not get upset if fclose's implied close() fails.  This
might, for instance, lead to running out of FILE structures.
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