"Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de> writes:
|> 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.
fclose requires a valid FILE object pointer, and NULL isn't among them.
Case closed.
Andreas.
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