Re: [man-pages PATCH] Add note about calling fclose(NULL)

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Thomas,

Could you supply some explanation of why you think this patch is required?

Thanks,

Michael

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Thomas Jarosch
<thomas.jarosch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  man3/fclose.3 | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/man3/fclose.3 b/man3/fclose.3
> index 1bdf0a5..6945e89 100644
> --- a/man3/fclose.3
> +++ b/man3/fclose.3
> @@ -97,6 +97,10 @@ on disk the kernel buffers must be flushed too, for example, with
>  .BR sync (2)
>  or
>  .BR fsync (2).
> +Also it's undefined behavior to call
> +.BR fclose ()
> +with a NULL pointer.
> +
>  .SH "SEE ALSO"
>  .BR close (2),
>  .BR fcloseall (3),
> --
> 1.7.11.7
>



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Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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