From: Ara.T.Howard@...
Date: 2004-08-24T06:00:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Stupid C...

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Lennon Day-Reynolds wrote:

> Okay, I'll answer my own question, just in case anyone's curious. This
> started working as soon as I changed the following lines:
> fclose(stdin);
> dup2(this_fh, fileno(stdin));
>
> to these:
> close(0);
> dup2(this_fh, 0);
>
> Go figure. Now I just have to make in work in Windows.
>
> Fun, fun.
>
> --
> Lennon
> rcoder.net

flclose (stdin) is defined to only close the FILE *stdin,  it is an
implementation detail that it happend to have an fd underneath. 
perhaps try generating a tmpfile and

freopen (tmp, 'r', stdin);


-a
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