# HG changeset patch
# User asl
# Date 1072001476 0
# Node ID afd0f71095a51b8b7ff17ae06020601f063461cc
# Parent  e09db684871e8eeaae6dde72fae88e3ee2d53c6f
       * src/dir.cxx (readdir_r): Handle NULL dirp argument and return
       EBADF

diff --git a/packages/io/fileio/current/ChangeLog b/packages/io/fileio/current/ChangeLog
--- a/packages/io/fileio/current/ChangeLog
+++ b/packages/io/fileio/current/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2003-12-21  Sandeep Kumar <sandeep@codito.com>
+
+	* src/dir.cxx (readdir_r): Handle NULL dirp argument and return
+	EBADF
+
 2003-12-03  Dan Jakubiec  <djakubiec@yahoo.com>
 
 	* src/select.cxx (pselect): Fixed the pselect() call to correctly
diff --git a/packages/io/fileio/current/src/dir.cxx b/packages/io/fileio/current/src/dir.cxx
--- a/packages/io/fileio/current/src/dir.cxx
+++ b/packages/io/fileio/current/src/dir.cxx
@@ -180,7 +180,12 @@ extern int readdir_r( DIR *dirp, struct 
     ssize_t res;
 
     *result = NULL;
-    
+
+    if( NULL == dirp )
+    {
+        FILEIO_RETURN_VALUE( EBADF );
+    }
+
     res = read( fd, (void *)entry, sizeof(struct dirent));
 
     if( res < 0 )