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From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: POSIX
Message-ID: <1989Oct26.143100.4916@world.std.com>
Date: 26 Oct 89 14:31:00 GMT
References: <3819@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: madd@world.UUCP (jim frost)
Organization: Software Tool & Die
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In article <3819@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
|When running the test program, I found a gross bug in Doug Gwyn's directory
|package.  However, if you call closedir()
|with a dirp that has already been closed, closedir() assumes that dirp
|points to a valid DIR

I'm not certain I'd call this a directory package bug, although an
attempt to trap it is certainly a feature.  GIGO and all.  A
legitimate closedir bug is something like the one in the SysV
closedir.  Paraphrased:

	closedir(dir)
	  DIRP *dir;
	{
	  free(dir);
	  return(close(dir->dirf));
	}

|If you don't like all the stupid underscores in the headers, may I
|congratulate you on your good taste.  Maybe we underscore-haters could
|join X3J11 en masse and vote the underscore-lovers down.

I'd be happy to.  It's kind of annoying to have to migrate up to that
top row all the time.  :-)

Happy hacking,

jim frost
software tool & die
madd@std.com