fwrite on a closed file

Sripathi Kodi sripathik@in.ibm.com
Mon Feb 27 06:17:00 GMT 2006


Roland McGrath wrote:
>>When fwrite is called on a closed file, it is supposed to return zero as
>>the number of bytes written.
> 
> 
> I don't know where you got this idea.  After you call fclose, any other use
> of that FILE * is undefined behavior.

Roland,

I had only concentrated on what specs say about fwrite, so I had missed this 
part about fclose. Sorry about that and thanks for pointing it out.

Sripathi.



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