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From: cechew@bruce.OZ (Earl Chew)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: is "is" the same as "when"?
Message-ID: <1679@bruce.OZ>
Date: 9 Nov 89 10:02:42 GMT
References: <4451@star.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: Monash Uni. Computer Science, Australia
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From article <4451@star.cs.vu.nl>, by ast@cs.vu.nl:
> 
> Perhaps I am beating a dead horse, but I'd like to get back to the question
> of whether giving closdir() a rotten pointer should cause a core dump from
> free().  [I prefer nitpicking technical discussions to religious wars.]

To quote P1003.1 Sec 5.1.2.2

	  If the dirp argument passed to any of these functions
	  does not refer to a currently-open directory stream,
	  the effect is undefined.

No doubt, this includes trying to closedir() twice.

Earl
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