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Re: fopen() bug


Stephen Whiteley <stevew@best.com> writes:
> 
> fopen(0, "r") maybe should fault, since that seems to be a common
> result under UNIX.  Otherwise, porting from Cygnus -> UNIX might break
> someone's (buggy) application.

Actually, it's undefined behaviour, and various Unix implementations 
deal with it in different ways (eg., Linux, HPUX, AIX, etc handle
these cases and set errno appropriately). Cygwin b20.1 will handle
it like Linux. 

Regards,
Mumit

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