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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 01:38:24 +0200
From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To: shmit@kublai.com, 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
References: <199809281310.GAA09001@freefall.freebsd.org> <199809282114.OAA12880@implode.root.com> <19980928182631.B307@kublai.com>
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In-Reply-To: <19980928182631.B307@kublai.com>; from Brian Cully on Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 06:26:31PM -0400
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On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 06:26:31PM -0400, Brian Cully wrote:
> 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)?

'cause these things are documented that way in the ISO C standard.

Eivind.

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