> Is it difficult for Linux to spot the the file isn't open and return EBADF?
> What does POSIX have to say about this? IMHO making it easier to port your
> programs to Linux (and behaving a little more sanely :) is worth a couple of
> extra bytes of anyone's kernel.
Its very simple. If you fclose something which is not a valid fopen handle
your program may and will break. On other platforms you should fix it too
quite possibly you are getting away purely by luck and it may either break
or worse yet corrupt data undetected if you dont
close(bogusvalue)
returns -1, EBADF
fclose(bogusvalue)
is entitled to do as it pleases
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