fopen does not return

Question

I used \'fopen\' in a C program to open a file in readonly mode (r). But in my case I observed that fopen call does not return. It does not return NULL or valid pointer - execut

Answer 1

So what? fopen is allowed to block until the file has been opened, or until it has been determined that access is denied. If you have a slow storage device, it is absolutely correct to wait until that becomes available. But that is an operating system issue then, not C's.