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From: Markus Wichmann <nullplan@gmx.net>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Why are stdin/stdout/stderr `FILE *const` in musl?
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 16:01:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180202150132.tzocezrj5vskos66@voyager> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1E109BA9-57C0-42DB-9B43-8ADE27F9E76C@hanauska.name>

On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 02:24:28PM +0100, CodingMarkus wrote:
> 	void * getOutputPtr ( void ) {
> 		if (/* whatever */) {
> 			return &stdout;
> 		}
> 		return &stderr;
> 	}
> 

Why would you ever need a pointer to stdout or stderr? They are already
pointers to FILE. The right way to do this is

FILE *getOutputPtr (void) {
    return intofile? fopen("log.txt", "w") : whatever? stdout: stderr;
}

Ciao,
Markus


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-02 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-02 13:24 CodingMarkus
2018-02-02 13:54 ` Jens Gustedt
2018-02-02 14:13   ` Alexander Monakov
2018-02-02 15:01 ` Markus Wichmann [this message]
2018-02-02 15:30   ` CodingMarkus
     [not found]     ` <CAOUYtQAWqEY_Ys3crsyXDmVVqJVjfzwTA0NsDxfpgU5cP_t2nA@mail.gmail.com>
2018-02-02 15:53       ` Jon Chesterfield
2018-02-02 16:01     ` Jens Gustedt
2018-02-02 16:12     ` Jeff Hammond
2018-02-02 17:16     ` William Pitcock
2018-02-02 17:35 ` Rich Felker

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