From:	snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com (Mark E.)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Bug: file left open in _check_v2_prog()
Date:	Thu, 09 Sep 1999 03:41:25 GMT
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dave AT roborat DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Dave Scott) wrote:

>I think I've found a bug in the libc '_check_v2_prog' function
>(in the file src\libc\dos\process\chkv2prg.c from DJLSR202.ZIP)
>

[snip]

>However in between there are several places (I count 10) where the
>function can return *without closing* the 'pf' file handle...
>For example :-
>    ...
>    if (read(pf, header, sizeof(header)) != sizeof(header))
>      return &type;
>    ...

[snip]

Hi Dave,
No need for a patch. This bug has been corrected in the DJGPP 2.03 alpha.

Mark

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