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RE: C question (linux)

• Posted by "Elliott S. de Andrade" <quantum_analyst at hotmail.com> Dec 11, 2003
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fopen returns a FILE *. The return type should be FILE *, and any time you 
used int for a file descriptor, you have to replace it with FILE *.

>From: Paul <draegur at comcast.net>
>Subject: C question (linux)
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions as to why this:
>
>int file_open(char *name, int mode)
>{
>
>//	return open(name, mode);
>
>         return fopen(name, "r");
>}
>
>Would return the following when compiled:
>
>warning: return makes integer from pointer without a cast
>
>
>This is driving me absolutely mad! I'm attempting to adjust the source of a
>program I didn't write. For whatever reason, the old open() call is 
>returning
>an invalid file descriptor (134758848 to be exact) so I am trying to change
>it from open() to fopen(). The files passed through this routine are all 
>read
>only types, so there is no reason for mode to ever be anything but 0 ("r") 
>so
>I figured just change the ,mode) to a "r"
>
>If anyone could think of any reason why I would get that message. I have no
>idea why, but I keep coming up with it.
>
>Thanks!
>