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Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 22:38:46 -0400
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Subject: Re: cygwin 1.7 fstat weirdness
From: Matt Wozniski <godlygeek AT gmail DOT com>
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On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr =C2=A06 14:46, Gregg Reynolds wrote:
>> =C2=A0 int fd =3D path ? open(path, O_RDONLY, TCFILEMODE) : 0; =C2=A0// =
path =3D "Makefile"
>
> Is fd =3D=3D 0 by any chance? =C2=A0The above code silently sets fd to 0 =
if it
> can't open path.

Unless I'm missing something, that code sets fd to 0 if path is
NULL... which doesn't seem to make any sense at all, since 0 is a
valid file descriptor number...

~Matt

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