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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: POSIX
Message-ID: <3842@math.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 26 Oct 89 21:20:31 GMT
References: <3819@ast.cs.vu.nl> <1989Oct26.143100.4916@world.std.com>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <1989Oct26.143100.4916@world.std.com> madd@world.UUCP (jim frost) writes:
>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, 

Perhaps it wasn't a bug previously, but has to be regarded as a bug now
because POSIX explicitly requires a call to closedir() with a rotten
argument to return EBADF, not to crash, trap or do anything else. (See
Sec. 5.1.2.4 of P1003.1).

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)