Re: lua bug - loadfile gets stdin confused

[Roberto Waltman <r5000@...>]

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
>...
> Unix has fileno, but if stdio is recycling FILE* then it probably is also
> recycling filenos. So opening a file right after closing stdin will probably
> create a file whose fileno is 0.

Not probably - File descriptors are assigned starting with the 
smallest available.  Closing stdin and immediately opening a new 
file is guaranteed to use file descriptor 0.


Roberto Waltman