Re: [PATCH] debugfs: don't try to fclose NULL

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On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 05:44:55PM +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > do_logdump may jump to errout if fopen(out_file) fails, 
> > but in that case out_file is NULL, and fclose will segfault.
> 
> You should report that segfault to glibc authors too.

It would be robust for glibc to code fclose() defensively such that it
would survive a null pointer, but I don't think it's technically
required by the ANSI or POSIX spec.

						- Ted
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