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-rw-r--r--libio/genops.c2
-rw-r--r--manual/stdio.texi8
-rw-r--r--stdio-common/tst-ungetc.c2
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/libio/genops.c b/libio/genops.c
index 99f5e80f20..b012fa33d2 100644
--- a/libio/genops.c
+++ b/libio/genops.c
@@ -662,7 +662,7 @@ _IO_sputbackc (FILE *fp, int c)
 {
   int result;
 
-  if (fp->_IO_read_ptr > fp->_IO_read_base
+  if (fp->_IO_read_ptr > fp->_IO_read_base && !_IO_in_backup (fp)
       && (unsigned char)fp->_IO_read_ptr[-1] == (unsigned char)c)
     {
       fp->_IO_read_ptr--;
diff --git a/manual/stdio.texi b/manual/stdio.texi
index 0db4e090af..29888a361f 100644
--- a/manual/stdio.texi
+++ b/manual/stdio.texi
@@ -1467,11 +1467,9 @@ program; usually @code{ungetc} is used only to unread a character that
 was just read from the same stream.  @Theglibc{} supports this
 even on files opened in binary mode, but other systems might not.
 
-@Theglibc{} only supports one character of pushback---in other
-words, it does not work to call @code{ungetc} twice without doing input
-in between.  Other systems might let you push back multiple characters;
-then reading from the stream retrieves the characters in the reverse
-order that they were pushed.
+@Theglibc{} supports pushing back multiple characters; subsequently
+reading from the stream retrieves the characters in the reverse order
+that they were pushed.
 
 Pushing back characters doesn't alter the file; only the internal
 buffering for the stream is affected.  If a file positioning function
diff --git a/stdio-common/tst-ungetc.c b/stdio-common/tst-ungetc.c
index 5c808f0734..388b202493 100644
--- a/stdio-common/tst-ungetc.c
+++ b/stdio-common/tst-ungetc.c
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ do_test (void)
   TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (getc (fp) == 'b');
   TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (getc (fp) == 'l');
   TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (ungetc ('m', fp) == 'm');
+  TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (ungetc ('n', fp) == 'n');
+  TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (getc (fp) == 'n');
   TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (getc (fp) == 'm');
   TEST_VERIFY_EXIT ((c = getc (fp)) == 'a');
   TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (getc (fp) == EOF);