From: dano@aa.net (Dan Olson) Subject: Re: fopen() bug 18 Nov 1998 03:45:47 -0800 Message-ID: <00d101be12bf$54001e60$0f02000a.cygnus.gnu-win32@ole.aa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: >Stephen Whiteley writes: >> >> 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. > >Actually, it's undefined behaviour, and various Unix implementations >deal with it in different ways (eg., Linux, HPUX, AIX, etc handle >these cases and set errno appropriately). Cygwin b20.1 will handle >it like Linux. Not that this matters if you are trying to handle things like Linux, but I seem to remember that on SunOS 4.1.x, fopen("", "r") opened the current directory. Does anybody remember that? Is that a BSD behaviour? -- dano@aa.net - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".