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Title:	FIO22-C. Close files before spawning processes
Author:	Jeffrey Gennari	Aug 21, 2007
Last Changed by:	David Svoboda	May 20, 2025
Tiny Link: (useful for email)	https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/8tUxBQ
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SEI CERT Oracle Coding Standard for Java (1)     Page: FIO04-J. Release resources when they are no longer needed

Android (1)     Page: Unknown Applicability (C Rules/Recomendations)

Parent Page     Page: Rec. 09. Input Output (FIO)

• ldra
• fortify
• compass/rose
• cwe-403
• cwe-770
• fio
• android-unknown
• rose-partial
• posix
• recommendation
• file
• cwe-404
• klocwork

Time	Editor
May 20, 2025 08:23	Caden Milne	View Changes
REM Cost Reform
Nov 25, 2024 13:04	Caden Milne	View Changes
Updated UB references from C11->C23
Apr 27, 2022 08:50	Jill Britton	View Changes
Dec 06, 2018 09:10	Michal Rozenau	View Changes
Parasoft C/C++test 10.4.1 update
Nov 16, 2017 14:41	Will Snavely

External Links (10)
    https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccod…
    cwe.mitre.org/
    cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/770.html
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683463.aspx
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/404.html
    cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/403.html
    https://www.kb.cert.org/vulnotes/bymetric?searchview&query=…

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