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open <&=fd does not work like fdopen #8032

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p5pRT opened this issue Jul 22, 2005 · 1 comment
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open <&=fd does not work like fdopen #8032

p5pRT opened this issue Jul 22, 2005 · 1 comment
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p5pRT commented Jul 22, 2005

Migrated from rt.perl.org#36630 (status was 'new')

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p5pRT commented Jul 22, 2005

From perlbug@plan9.de

Created by perlbug@plan9.de

First of all, I am trying to translate a file descriptor into a perl
filehandle (actually in an XS module), which turned out to be a
surprisingly difficult problem (for me, at least :).

This is what I came up with​:

  open $fh, "+<&=$fd"
  or return undef;

Anyways. When perl filehandles go out of scope, perl implicitly calls
close(). This does not happen, however, with the <&= open mode, which is
documented as​:

  If you specify ’<&=X’, where "X" is a file descriptor number or a
  filehandle, then Perl will do an equivalent of C’s "fdopen" of that
  file descriptor (and not call dup(2)); this is more parsimonious of
  file descriptors.

However, fdopen is documented (on GNU/Linux) as closing the fd when the
associated stream is closed, and this seems to be the way fdopen usually
acts on unix-like systems.

This does not happen in perl in the above example, instead, the fd is
leaked and never being closed. The workaround is easy​: use "+<&$fd" and
close the fd, at the cost of an extra dup (and in my case the cost of not
being able to create a unique filehandle symbol as I don't know the fd).

I think this is likely to be a doc bug, as changing existing behaviour of
<&= is not likely to be useful. Could also be a perlio problem, though. In
any case, documentation is not aligned with actual implementation.

Greetings,
  Marc

Perl Info 

Flags:
    category=core
    severity=low

Site configuration information for perl v5.8.6:

Configured by Marc Lehmann at Tue Nov 30 00:54:44 CET 2004.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 6) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.6.10-rc1, archname=amd64-linux
    uname='linux cerebro 2.6.10-rc1 #1 smp mon nov 22 05:47:21 cet 2004 x86_64 gnulinux '
    config_args='-Duselargefiles -Dxuse64bitint -Uxuse64bitall -Dusemymalloc=y -Dcc=gcc-3.4 -Dccflags=-ggdb -Dcppflags=-D_GNU_SOURCE -I/opt/include -Doptimize=-O4 -march=opteron -mtune=opteron -funroll-loops -fno-strict-aliasing -Dcccdlflags=-fPIC -Dldflags=-L/opt/perl/lib -L/opt/lib -Dlibs=-ldl -lm -lcrypt -Darchname=amd64-linux -Dprefix=/opt/perl -Dprivlib=/opt/perl/lib/perl5 -Darchlib=/opt/perl/lib/perl5 -Dvendorprefix=/opt/perl -Dvendorlib=/opt/perl/lib/perl5 -Dvendorarch=/opt/perl/lib/perl5 -Dsiteprefix=/opt/perl -Dsitelib=/opt/perl/lib/perl5 -Dsitearch=/opt/perl/lib/perl5 -Dsitebin=/opt/perl/bin -Dman1dir=/opt/perl/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/opt/perl/man/man3 -Dsiteman1dir=/opt/perl/man/man1 -Dsiteman3dir=/opt/perl/man/man3 -Dman1ext=1 -Dman3ext=3 -Dpager=/usr/bin/less -Uafs -Uusesfio -Uusenm -Uuseshrplib -Dd_dosuid -Dusethreads=undef -Duse5005threads=undef -Duseithreads=undef -Dusemultiplicity=undef -Demail=perl-binary@plan9.de -Dcf_email=perl-binary@plan9.de -Dcf_by=Marc Lehmann -Dlocincpth=/opt/perl/include /opt/include -Dmyhostname=localhost -Dmultiarch=undef -Dbin=/opt/perl/bin -des'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=define use64bitall=define uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=y, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc-3.4', ccflags ='-ggdb -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/opt/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O4 -march=opteron -mtune=opteron -funroll-loops -fno-strict-aliasing',
    cppflags='-D_GNU_SOURCE -I/opt/include -ggdb -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/opt/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='3.4.2 (Debian 3.4.2-3)', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
    ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='gcc-3.4', ldflags ='-L/opt/perl/lib -L/opt/lib -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-ldl -lm -lcrypt
    perllibs=-ldl -lm -lcrypt
    libc=/lib/libc-2.3.2.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version='2.3.2'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/opt/perl/lib -L/opt/lib -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    


@INC for perl v5.8.6:
    /root/src/sex
    /opt/perl/lib/perl5
    /opt/perl/lib/perl5
    /opt/perl/lib/perl5
    /opt/perl/lib/perl5
    /opt/perl/lib/perl5
    /opt/perl/lib/perl5
    /opt/perl/lib/perl5
    .


Environment for perl v5.8.6:
    HOME=/root
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/root/s2:/root/s:/opt/bin:/opt/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/games:/root/src/uunet:.
    PERL5LIB=/root/src/sex
    PERL5_CPANPLUS_CONFIG=/root/.cpanplus/config
    PERLDB_OPTS=ornaments=0
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    PERL_UNICODE=SAL
    SHELL=/bin/bash

@xenu xenu removed the affects-5.8 label Nov 19, 2021
@xenu xenu removed the Severity Low label Dec 29, 2021
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