Re: SIGSEGV on fclose.

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Thu Jul 13 2000 - 04:35:32 EST

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madsdyd@challenge.dk said:
> The manpage says:
> ERRORS
> EBADF The argument stream is not an open stream.

It's _permitted_ to return EBADF. It doesn't don't _have_ to.

madsdyd@challenge.dk said:
> I do not know a lot about the Linux file system, but I found this in
> fs/open.c:

You're already dealing with a filedescriptor there. The "struct file *"
within Linux is entirely different to the 'FILE *' in userspace.

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