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From: berg@marvin.e17.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Stephen R. van den Berg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: When will fopen fail?
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Date: 19 Apr 91 08:31:24 GMT
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Tom Kovar writes:
>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

Or no memory left (fopen does a malloc!)
--
Sincerely,                 berg@marvin.e17.physik.tu-muenchen.de
           Stephen R. van den Berg.
"I code it in 5 min, optimize it in 90 min, because it's so well optimized:
it runs in only 5 min.  Actually, most of the time I optimize programs."