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On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Jonathan Conder <jonno.conder@gmail.com> wrote:
According to FOPEN(3), using fclose on an fdopen'd file stream also closes the underlying file descriptor. This happened in _alpm_lckmk (util.c), which meant that when alpm_trans_release closed it again, the log file (which reused the original file descriptor) was closed instead.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Conder <jonno.conder@gmail.com> ---
So no one ever spotted this because logs are only made during a transaction ? Anyway nice finding :)
Pretty much, yeah. Even then it might not affect pacman if the log file gets opened before a transaction is initialized. However, it does affect my frontend, and maybe it would have caused other bugs in future. Thanks, it was a tough one to track down :)
Signed-off-by: Xavier Chantry <chantry.xavier@gmail.com>