>matt@theBachChoir.org.uk said:
>> but his example fcloses a file which was not opened. This isn't
>> "further access".
>
>He said that it arises from a program that closes a file twice.
Yup, except the second time the program tries to fclose, the filehandle
is
not pointing to anything useful, aka not an open stream.
>
>> Is it difficult for Linux to spot the the file isn't open and
return
>> EBADF? What does POSIX have to say about this? IMHO making it
easier
>> to port your programs to Linux (and behaving a little more sanely
:)
>> is worth a couple of extra bytes of anyone's kernel.
>
Agreed, it took several days to track this one down in a program that
runs
without problems on all the unix'es.
On scanning the net I noticed that other people have had the same
problem,
which is why I reported it here.
Regards,
Bjarne
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