Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!ames!cronkite.cisco.com!cisco.com!vandys From: vandys@cisco.com (Andrew Valencia) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: fread return value Date: 18 Aug 93 21:02:50 GMT Organization: cisco Systems Lines: 6 Message-ID: <vandys.745707770@cisco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: glare.cisco.com The function fread(), when passed a size of 0 and nitems 1, will return a value of 1. Both my SunOS and System V systems return a 0 in the same situation. This tends to break the terminating condition of some file processing loops. Andy