Re: Is this a bug in libc6?
> > The point here is that it's _documented_ to return EBADF if the stream
> > pointer is not an open stream, and that's not what happens. This is
> > difficult to enforce in practice, and is not necessary for ISO
> > compliance -- so let's fix the man page.
>
> Nope, you're reading that backwards. It says that if fclose() returns EOF_
> _and _errno_ = _EBADF_, then that means that the stream is not
> open.
You people are being unbelievably pedantic.
I know I'm not supposed to fclose() an already-closed stream, or one that
failed to fopen(). If I try that, I _expect_ unpredictable behaviour!
However, when I read the manpage, I found it quite unclear. If I didn't
know better, I would think that double-fclose()ing a file was okay.
The bug is not in libc, it's in the manpage. Fix the manpage.
Avery
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