[LEDE-DEV] fstools testing help

[Daniel Dickinson]

On Tue, 2016-08-09 at 17:13 +0200, Josua Mayer wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> I have finally found the time to look into this, and managed to
> reproduce the segfault that Álvaro noticed.
> It is caused by a call to fclose(0x0); This is very unexpected,
> shouldn't the C library check for NULL and return quietly?

C generally doesn't do any prevent shooting yourself in the foot type
checks for things related to memory/fd/handle management.  Part of the
reason is fast and small is that it leaves most things up to the
programmer.  I've head RUST is supposed to be a new thing that might be
small and fast but safer, but that's just what I'm told, I haven't
looked into it, and don't really know anything about it.

Regards,

Daniel