[clean-list] freopen fails

[Arjen van Weelden]

Arjen van Weelden wrote, but forgot to include the clean-list:
> Flushing your last write to the file might fail when closing due to a 
> disk full error or something. But coming from freopen, it is probably 
> something else. Could you post a small program that exhibits the issue?
> 
> regards,
>     Arjen
> 
> Erik Zuurbier wrote:
>>
>> Dear Cleaners,
>>  
>> I have a case where freopen fails. The comments in the StdFile library 
>> say:
>>  
>> freopen  :: !*File !Int -> (!Bool,!*File)
>> /* Re-opens an open file in a possibly different mode.
>>  The boolean indicates whether the file was successfully closed before 
>> reopening. */
>> So I look at fclose:
>>  
>>  fclose :: !*File !*f -> (!Bool,!*f)
>>    /* Closes a file */
>> I can imagine that closing fails if I remove a file by hand in the 
>> mean time, but that is not the case in my program.
>> What could be the other  conditions under which closing a file fails?
>>  
>> Regards Erik Zuurbier
>>
>>
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