Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!udel!mmdf From: HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Misfeature in fclose.c Message-ID: <26230@nigel.udel.EDU> Date: 31 Jul 90 15:05:11 GMT Sender: mmdf@ee.udel.EDU Lines: 7 you open a worm can if you begin to protect single library functions against illegal parameters. you will end up, after a decade, with a library which is very clean, very smart, very safe, and very slow. C.v.W.