Re: getF in lauxlib.c--why call feof?

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> Why is it necessary to call feof before the fread? Won't fread return
> 0 if feof returns true? It seems that fread correctly handles the case
> of EOF.

The man page says:

  fread does not distinguish between end-of-file and error, and callers
  must use feof(3) and ferror(3) to determine which occurred.