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Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 15:12:49 -0400
From: "Andy Greenwood" <greenwood.andy@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: C coding question
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That did it! thanks so much!

On 5/17/06, Lorin Lund <wbs@infowest.com> wrote:
> Andy Greenwood wrote:
>
> > I am helping someone work on porting some code to Freebsd, and the
> > code below works on Linux, but not on FreeBSD (compiles, but gives
> > Segmentation Fault: 11). I'm not sure where the problem is, and any
> > pointers would be much appreciated.
> >
> >        /* Check if we must stop */
> >        if(tf_stat_file !=3D NULL)
> >        {
> >            tf_stat =3D fopen(tf_stat_file, "r");
> >            if (tf_stat !=3D NULL)
> >            {
> >                /* Get state */
> >                stat_state=3Dfgetc(tf_stat);
> >
> >                /* Torrentflux asked to shutdown the torrent */
> >                if (stat_state =3D=3D '0')
> >                {
> >                    mustDie =3D 1;
> >                }
> >            }
> >            fclose(tf_stat);
> >        }
> > _______________________________________________
>
> I think I would move the
>     fclose( tf_stat)
> up a line.  No need to close a file that failed to open.  The fclose( )
> acting on
> a NULL pointer might be your error.
>
>