On 06/23/2014 05:46 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote: >> - closedir(dir); >> + if (dir) >> + closedir(dir); >> VIR_FREE(path); >> return ret; >> } >> > > So why is free(NULL) safe on FreeBSD then? I'd call this a libc bug not > a libvirt one. But since even we already have such borken design > (remember our publir vir*Free() APIs?) I can live with this patch.
free(NULL) is explicitly required by C (and therefore POSIX) to be safe. closedir(NULL) is intentionally unspecified by POSIX, and therefore unsafe. It would be nice if the two had similar requirements, but as POSIX was merely standardizing existing practice, we are stuck with them being different in behavior. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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