Re: Why fopen fail because of EINTR?

From: Barry Margolin (barry.margolin_at_level3.com)
Date: 06/20/03 

Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 14:13:45 GMT

In article <x7wufhkyj8.fsf@bolo.xenadyne.com>,
Sean Burke <burke_sp31415@pacbell.net> wrote:
>So, if you open 255 sockets, thus consuming all of the file
>descriptor thru and beyond 255, a subsequent fopen will fail.
>Presumably with EMFILE.

We agreed that this would fail. The issue under discussion is only whether
it sets errno. The Solaris documentation specifically says that it
doesn't:

     fopen() may fail and not set errno if there are no free
     stdio streams.

but the empirical evidence contradicts this. 

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