Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!gatech!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!tuvie!nestroy!usenet From: tom@itc.univie.ac.at (Tom Kovar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: When will fopen fail? Message-ID: <1991Apr17.153144.4817@nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at> Date: 17 Apr 91 15:31:44 GMT References: <11079@uwm.edu> Sender: usenet@nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at (The Usenet User) Organization: Inst. of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna Lines: 15 In article <11079@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins) writes: > > Assuming all the subdirectories are there and writeable (on UNIX or >MS-DOS), when does > > FP = fopen("...", "w"); > >fail and return FP == NULL? ... file system full ... user quota exceeded ... file system mounted read only ... any other ideas?? ...Tom