On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 08:51:48AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> writes:
>
> > I assume that the other unices store a magic number within the stream
> > structure, but that's ugly and doesn't guarantee an error message: you
> > replace a 100% sigsegv with a rare race - I prefer the sigsegv.
>
> Can we all stop this nonsense now. Manfred's comment summarizes the
> situation pretty well. One of the basic design rules of glibc is to
> crash early whenever something is wrong since all workarounds (like in
> this case) never have a 100% chance to survive.
The original poster passed it a NULL pointer though, not a random pointer.
It would be certainly reasonable to check for NULL pointer in fclose,
similar to free()
-Andi
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