John Fawcett:
> Actually to be more precise: is it guaranteed to return not null and
> with all the function pointers in the returned dict struct also not
> null. I'm adding this because I think it does always return something
> not null, but I'm not sure that the function pointers are always not
> null. There's a condition that sometimes does not define update and
> delete in dict_surrogate.c
>
> ?? if (open_flags & O_RDWR) {
> ??????? dp->dict.update = dict_surrogate_update;
> ??????? dp->dict.delete = dict_surrogate_delete;
> ??? }
>
> Not sure if that helps, but just an idea.
Those function pointer are initialized by dict_alloc() as pointers
to function that say "you cannot do this".
Wietse
