Bug: segfault in ifup during bootup

Wed Aug 27 19:22:59 UTC 2008

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 04:15:36PM -0300, Gustavo Moreira wrote:
>Ok, I'm using busybox-1.10.1, but the latest version/revision
>BusyBox-1.12.0 has the same bug.
>I solved it by this way and now it is working for me, before not
>worked (segfault).
>xfopen fail because I have a readonly filesystem, and it cannot create
>the file, but beyond that should not go out with segfault.

xfopen should die (as in exit(1)); if it can't open the file.
The question is why it doesn't die as it's supposed to.