On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 12:39 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > 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. It's the programmer's responsibility to write the following: if (fp) fclose(fp); -- http://www.munted.org.uk One very high maintenance cat living here. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html