From: khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu (Mumit Khan)
Subject: Re: fopen() bug
16 Nov 1998 03:49:12 -0800
Message-ID: <9811160741.AA24536.cygnus.gnu-win32@modi.xraylith.wisc.edu>
References: <199811090611 DOT WAA00749 AT srware DOT com>
To: "Stephen R. Whiteley" <stevew AT srware DOT com>
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

"Stephen R. Whiteley" <stevew AT srware DOT com> writes:
> 
> fopen("", "r") causes a segmentation fault.  It should simply return 0.
> 

Thanks for the bug report. The next winsup minor update (b20.1) from 
Cygnus should have the fix.

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''.

Regards,
Mumit

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