On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:00:10PM -0700, Jeff Mahovsky wrote: > The stat(2) manpage does not indicate the behavior of the stat() > function when the filename is a NULL pointer. Does stat() return an > error or is the behavior undefined? I think it is generally not safe to rely on proper handling of such NULL pointers unless it is explicitly specified that they are handled correctly. I think e.g. glibc will happily peek at the stat()'s filename if you compile with -fbounded-pointers. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis When I feel like exercising, I just lie down until the feeling goes away. -- xed_over -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
