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authorZack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>2018-02-21 19:12:51 -0500
committerZack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>2018-03-13 08:31:56 -0400
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[BZ 1190] Make EOF sticky in stdio.
C99 specifies that the EOF condition on a file is "sticky": once EOF
has been encountered, all subsequent reads should continue to return
EOF until the file is closed or something clears the "end-of-file
indicator" (e.g. fseek, clearerr).  This is arguably a change from
C89, where the wording was ambiguous; the BSDs always had sticky EOF,
but the System V lineage would attempt to read from the underlying fd
again.  GNU libc has followed System V for as long as we've been
using libio, but nowadays C99 conformance and BSD compatibility are
more important than System V compatibility.

You might wonder if changing the _underflow impls is sufficient to
apply the C99 semantics to all of the many stdio functions that
perform input.  It should be enough to cover all paths to _IO_SYSREAD,
and the only other functions that call _IO_SYSREAD are the _seekoff
impls, which is OK because seeking clears EOF, and the _xsgetn impls,
which, as far as I can tell, are unused within glibc.

The test programs in this patch use a pseudoterminal to set up the
necessary conditions.  To facilitate this I added a new test-support
function that sets up a pair of pty file descriptors for you; it's
almost the same as BSD openpty, the only differences are that it
allocates the optionally-returned tty pathname with malloc, and that
it crashes if anything goes wrong.

	[BZ #1190]
        [BZ #19476]
	* libio/fileops.c (_IO_new_file_underflow): Return EOF immediately
	if the _IO_EOF_SEEN bit is already set; update commentary.
	* libio/oldfileops.c (_IO_old_file_underflow): Likewise.
	* libio/wfileops.c (_IO_wfile_underflow): Likewise.

	* support/support_openpty.c, support/tty.h: New files.
	* support/Makefile (libsupport-routines): Add support_openpty.

	* libio/tst-fgetc-after-eof.c, wcsmbs/test-fgetwc-after-eof.c:
	New test cases.
	* libio/Makefile (tests): Add tst-fgetc-after-eof.
	* wcsmbs/Makefile (tests): Add tst-fgetwc-after-eof.
Diffstat (limited to 'libio/oldfileops.c')
-rw-r--r--libio/oldfileops.c7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/libio/oldfileops.c b/libio/oldfileops.c
index 7997ddf90b..5e60c8c168 100644
--- a/libio/oldfileops.c
+++ b/libio/oldfileops.c
@@ -294,11 +294,10 @@ attribute_compat_text_section
 _IO_old_file_underflow (FILE *fp)
 {
   ssize_t count;
-#if 0
-  /* SysV does not make this test; take it out for compatibility */
+
+  /* C99 requires EOF to be "sticky".  */
   if (fp->_flags & _IO_EOF_SEEN)
-    return (EOF);
-#endif
+    return EOF;
 
   if (fp->_flags & _IO_NO_READS)
     {