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From: "Wilhelm B. Kloke" <wb@yorikke.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de>
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Subject: bin/7742: fclose(3) dumps core on NULL
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>Number:         7742
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       fclose(3) dumps core on NULL
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Aug 25 07:10:01 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Wilhelm B. Kloke
>Organization:
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386
>Environment:

	FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386

>Description:

	I found for the 2nd time that installing a program failed
	for fclose coredumping when ivoked with NULL. (teTeX-0.9)

>How-To-Repeat:

	Easily.

>Fix:
	
	The man page doe not say anything on this. But it seems
	programming practice, closing a file after open, even if
	the open failed.
	So the library fclose should return gracefully when
	invoked with NULL.

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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