From: stevew@best.com (Stephen Whiteley)
Subject: Re: fopen() bug
16 Nov 1998 21:54:07 -0800
Message-ID: <199811161647.IAA27163.cygnus.gnu-win32@shell7.ba.best.com>
References: <9811160741.AA24536@modi.xraylith.wisc.edu>
To: khan@xraylith.wisc.edu, stevew@srware.com
Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com


Re: fopen("", "r")

> It still gets a SEGV when you provide a NULL pointer for file name,
> but that's allowed by POSIX. I'll however send a fix that for that 
> as well to be ``user friendly''.

fopen(0, "r") maybe should fault, since that seems to be a common
result under UNIX.  Otherwise, porting from Cygnus -> UNIX might break
someone's (buggy) application.

Steve
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