Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 28 Sep 1998 18:26:31 -0400
From:      Brian Cully <shmit@kublai.com>
To:        dg@root.com, "Wilhelm B. Kloke" <wb@yorikke.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bin/7742: fclose(3) dumps core on NULL
Message-ID:  <19980928182631.B307@kublai.com>
In-Reply-To: <199809282114.OAA12880@implode.root.com>; from David Greenman on Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 02:14:12PM -0700
References:  <199809281310.GAA09001@freefall.freebsd.org> <199809282114.OAA12880@implode.root.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 02:14:12PM -0700, David Greenman wrote:
>    So that programmers will know about the problem and can fix the faulty
> programs.

Why is free(NULL) permissable, but not fclose(NULL)?

-- 
Brian Cully						<shmit@rcn.com>
``And when one of our comrades was taken prisoner, blindfolded, hung
  upside-down, shot, and burned, we thought to ourselves, `These are the
  best experiences of our lives''' -Pathology (Joe Frank, Somewhere Out There)

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19980928182631.B307>