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

I notice you don't close the file if you open it successfully.

Is it possible you that you have run it before and killed it, and now you have a process out there which has the file open, and locked?

If so, then maybe fopen is waiting for the lock to be released.