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Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly

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On 24/10/2023 12:18, tom kronmiller wrote:
> so I unbuffered stdin and that seemed to make it happy.

It might be performance killer. Even fflush(NULL) before fork() may be 
better.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50110992/why-does-forking-my-process-cause-the-file-to-be-read-infinitely
"Why does forking my process cause the file to be read infinitely"

extensively explains that seek offset is shared by inherited file 
description and flushing stdin in child affects its parent. However 
buffers are independent. Accordingly to POSIX "The application shall 
prepare for a fork() exactly as if it were a change of active handle."

glibc bug report was closed as invalid
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23151

I am curious why macOS behaves differently.

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Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2023-10-23 10:50 +0200
  Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2023-10-23 11:20 +0200
    Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-10-23 15:40 +0200
      Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly jleonard@slimy.com (Jon Leonard) - 2023-10-23 16:20 +0200
        Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly tom kronmiller <twk.personal@gmail.com> - 2023-10-23 16:40 +0200
          Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-10-23 17:20 +0200
        Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-10-23 18:40 +0200
          Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-10-23 20:10 +0200
    Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly tom kronmiller <twk.personal@gmail.com> - 2023-10-23 21:50 +0200
      Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2023-10-23 22:20 +0200
        Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-10-23 22:30 +0200
          Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2023-10-23 22:50 +0200
            Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-10-23 23:00 +0200
        Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly tom kronmiller <twk.personal@gmail.com> - 2023-10-24 07:20 +0200
          Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-10-24 18:10 +0200
            Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-10-24 21:30 +0200
              Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly conover@panix.com (John Conover) - 2023-10-25 01:00 +0200
              Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly jleonard@slimy.com (Jon Leonard) - 2023-10-25 04:20 +0200
              Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-10-25 04:40 +0200
              Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-10-25 06:30 +0200
            Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly tom kronmiller <twk.personal@gmail.com> - 2023-10-25 07:40 +0200
              Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly tom kronmiller <twk.personal@gmail.com> - 2023-10-25 08:00 +0200
  Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-10-23 18:30 +0200
    Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-10-24 05:00 +0200

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