bug#79808: Possible missing fclose() in tac_nonseekable (src/tac.c)

Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:49:01 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2025-11-10 04:53, Ray steven wrote:
> it might still be a good
> idea to
> explicitly close the file once it’s no longer in use.

Generally speaking we don't bother with explicit deallocation of 
resources if not needed to avoid resource exhaustion. Such deallocation 
complicates maintenance and slows down execution a bit, and in practice 
these disadvantages outweigh the advantages of deallocation.