diff -Nurd pinfo-0.6.9/src/filehandling_functions.c pinfo-0.6.9-new/src/filehandling_functions.c
--- pinfo-0.6.9/src/filehandling_functions.c	2006-03-16 10:15:02.000000000 -0500
+++ pinfo-0.6.9-new/src/filehandling_functions.c	2010-04-20 13:24:47.000000000 -0400
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@
 	}
 
 	/* if we haven't found anything, clean up and exit */
-	if (!goodHit)
+	if ( id  &&  !goodHit )
 	{
 		fclose(id);
 		id = 0;