Re: What is ``access (NULL, whatever)'' supposed to do?

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 10:50:26PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote:

> The same happens when passing NULL file names to `open' and a lot (if
> not all) of their friends.

Yes, that was the Qt situation.

> So, should instead `file_name_lookup' or `hurd_file_name_lookup' be
> made robust enough to handle a NULL file name?  (Fail with EINVAL?)

Problem is that while it's easy to check for NULL, we can't easily catch
other kinds of bad pointers. Considering this, I'm not sure it's
worthwhile to specially handle the NULL case.

-antrik-