Hi Duy,

On Wed, 3 May 2017, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:

> The main thing to catch here is when fopen() is called on a
> directory. It's safe even without this change because a few lines
> earlier we do check if "filename" is a regular file.
> 
> Regardless, let's stay on the safe side in case somebody changes those
> lines. Unconditionally printing to stderr by warn_on_inaccessible()
> should be fine, because the caller does unconditional fprintf(stderr,
> too, no checking for quiet option or anything.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclo...@gmail.com>

I appreciate that you mention specifically the use case that triggered my
complaint that in turn prodded you into starting working on this.

However, I think this should be a mere side note in a single commit that
introduces and uses fopen_or_warn().

Ciao,
Dscho

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