From:	stevew AT best DOT com (Stephen Whiteley)
Subject:	Re: fopen() bug
16 Nov 1998 21:54:07 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<199811161647.IAA27163.cygnus.gnu-win32@shell7.ba.best.com>
References:	<9811160741 DOT AA24536 AT modi DOT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu>
To:	khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu, stevew AT srware DOT com
Cc:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Re: fopen("", "r")

> It still gets a SEGV when you provide a NULL pointer for file name,
> but that's allowed by POSIX. I'll however send a fix that for that 
> as well to be ``user friendly''.

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.

Steve
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