summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/lib
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authoreivind <eivind@FreeBSD.org>1998-09-28 15:34:24 +0000
committereivind <eivind@FreeBSD.org>1998-09-28 15:34:24 +0000
commitd1204d260f029316bea4c00223c0d320f5de4e38 (patch)
tree72ece33b7a46cf48b88d7b858050de8ecae9798d /lib
parentc7cd80895a2d293b7020acd4df0323dd40b6f12a (diff)
downloadFreeBSD-src-d1204d260f029316bea4c00223c0d320f5de4e38.zip
FreeBSD-src-d1204d260f029316bea4c00223c0d320f5de4e38.tar.gz
Document that we will core-dump on getting a NULL pointer.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdio/fclose.34
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdio/fclose.3 b/lib/libc/stdio/fclose.3
index 77f3316..3e3e0f5 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdio/fclose.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdio/fclose.3
@@ -80,6 +80,10 @@ for any of the errors specified for the routines
.Xr close 2
or
.Xr fflush 3 .
+If passed a NULL argument,
+.Fn fclose
+will dump core. This is intentional, as it makes it easier to make
+sure program written under FreeBSD are bug free.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr close 2 ,
.Xr fflush 3 ,
OpenPOWER on IntegriCloud