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From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
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Subject: Re: bin/108118: [libc] files should not cache their EOF status
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The way I read POSIX, FreeBSD's current behaviour seems correct. Calling
fread(3) is equivalent to calling fgetc(3) an appropriate number of
times, and fgetc(3) shall fail if the end-of-file indicator is set for
the stream, even if data is available on the underlying file.

Apparently, POSIX aligns with the C standard here; System V tradition is
not to check the end-of-file indicator here. Both
src/lib/libc/stdio/refill.c (__srefill()) and Solaris fgetc(3) manpage
agree about this.

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Jilles Tjoelker