Well, originally, I thought you had a point, but I'm willing to admit.
I was WRONG.
#So FILE *stdin is like any other FILE *. It should work by the same
#rules.
It does
#The BUG, and it is a BUG, is that a seldom used function like fclose()
#has been 'optimized'.
Yup, it has. The library does not check to make sure the programmer knows
whats he is doing, it just does as its told.
#struct _IO_FILE contains some pointers. If these pointers are dereferenced
#during the fclose(), and they are NULL, or point to memory you don't own,
#your program will seg-fault.
Correct! the library shouldn't have to check the pointers cause if you use
the calls properly, it won't sefault.
#fclose() should check these structure members and return EBADF,
#as specified, instead of just crashing.
Actually, it specifies that:
"In either case any further access
(including another call to fclose()) to the stream results
in undefined behaviour."
"undefined behavior" is your segfault, however, it could do anything, its a
hanging pointer.
#Now, if the specification of fclose() allowed a seg-fault that's quite
#another thing. According to Linux's own documentation, it should
#return with -1 and set errno to EBADF if I give it trash.
This is not only NOT a linux kernel issue, its not even a linux issue at all.
I believe the C library is GNU, and I think its correct behavior since, as
someone already pointed out to me (thanks!), it DOES say it will give
undefined behavior if you access a closed stream - and by extension, this can
also refer to something that isn't a stream at all. Don't fclose() something
thats already closed. Manage your code better, or use perl :)
And uhmm .. do you REALLY read your mail as root? Lets not bug the list no
more with this, k?
--Evan
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