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From: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
Subject: Re: misc/19975: fgets() and fread() on file without reading rights leads to SEGV 
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The following reply was made to PR misc/19975; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
To: chucha@jam.tario.ru
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Subject: Re: misc/19975: fgets() and fread() on file without reading rights leads to SEGV 
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:02:17 +1000

 Read the man page for fopen().  It returns NULL if the file can't be opened.
 
 fread() (and fgets(), and even feof() etc) can only be used on valid
 filehandles.
 
 This PR can be closed.
 
 


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