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From: y38h5z@protonmail.com
To: "musl@lists.openwall.com" <musl@lists.openwall.com>
Subject: non-standard implementation of fflush()
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:31:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hWubjKhHb4ZfOGaZv79qXIyVWlWXwlqxkFR4yrVHEB9X2W2VPxj2Cv5RicGK3Ep8M3rd-CPtQJXyH4-dGSGeMnzbKmEwyS6hBSJghPJx__k=@protonmail.com> (raw)

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Hello everyone,

the implementation of fflush() in musl doesn't seem to conform to the opengroup standard:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/fflush.html

In addition to flushing unwritten data, which is expected, musl flushes the read buffer when calling fflush(). This leads to data loss in bidirectional communication uses. Other standard libraries don't do this.

As a reference compare musl to openbsd's libc:

https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/stdio/fflush.c
https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/lib/libc/stdio/fflush.c

I think this is unexpected behavior and should be changed.

Greetings,
  Michael

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             reply	other threads:[~2019-11-21 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-21 18:31 y38h5z [this message]
2019-11-21 19:04 ` Rich Felker
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2019-11-21 22:58     ` Rich Felker
2019-11-23 21:35       ` y38h5z

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