According to C99, Section 7.19.3 p6:
The address of the
FILEobject used to control a stream may be significant; a copy of aFILEobject need not serve in place of the original.
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FIO38-C | low | probable | medium | P4 | L3 |
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Related Guidelines
CERT This rule appears in the C++ Secure Coding Standard as : FIO38-CPP. Do not use a copy of a FILE object for input and output.
Bibliography
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Bibliography
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FIO37-C. Do not assume that fgets() returns a nonempty string when successful 09. Input Output (FIO)