Re: read-file

[Larry Jones]

Aaron Stone writes:
> 
> If I were using a function like this, I'd expect NULL on error (and
> errno set according to fopen), and an empty string if the file is empty.

Note that the C Standard doesn't require fopen to set errno and
traditional implementations didn't, at least in some cases.

-Larry Jones

I think we need to change the rules. -- Calvin