Re: Buffered stderr on Linux

[Steven L Baur <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Zoltan" == Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Zoltan> Bart Schaefer wrote:
>> 
>> Stdio will call free() on the buffer at fclose().  That means you should
>> always pass malloc'd buffers, and never call free() yourself on a buffer
>> that's been passed to any of the setbuf() variants!

Zoltan> Well I've just checked it on Solaris and Linux and it seems
Zoltan> that you are wrong.
 ...
Zoltan> It means that static buffer can be used with setvbuf.

I checked the source code to Linux libc 5.2.18 && libc 5.3.5 and
Zoltan is correct -- a buffer set by setvbuf is not freed upon fclose().

What does the standard say?  My copy of IEEE 1003.1 mentions setvbuf
but doesn't assign any specific details to it.

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