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Article #140Re: closedir() bug report (SVr3.1)
From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1989 16:59
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1989 16:59
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In article <5890003@hpcupt1.HP.COM> vandys@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Andrew Valencia(Seattle)) writes: - ... after free is performed this space is made available - for further allocation, but its contents are left undisturbed. - ===================================== -You can claim that this is WRONG, but for compatibility I'd recommend not -going against the grain with alternative malloc/free implementations. On the other hand, no code should be written to depend on this "guarantee". Thus closedir() really did have a bug (I should know; I wrote it).
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!ginosko!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5 Subject: Re: closedir() bug report (SVr3.1) Message-ID: <11418@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 27 Oct 89 16:59:57 GMT References: <89Oct23.223414edt.2151@neat.cs.toronto.edu> <5890003@hpcupt1.HP.COM> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 9