Bug#376756: libc6: popen() should return NULL

[Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 05:08:19PM -0300, Jakson Aquino wrote:

> $ gcc testpopen.c
> $ ./a.out
> Before: F = (nil)
> After:  F = 0x501010
> sh: nothing: command not found

This means that popen() _did_ succeed (it has invoked the shell). The
fact that the shell could not interpret the command and therefore exited
with an error is not popen()'s business anymore.

Gabor

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