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From: | Pádraig Brady |
Subject: | Re: POSIX requires checking all *printf return values?!? |
Date: | Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:42:52 +0100 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071008) |
Jim Meyering wrote: > I'm beginning to wonder if this is an error in the C library after all. > Surely POSIX doesn't intend to require that all programs test every > *printf return value. That would be silly. If so, what's the point > of the stream error indicator? You make a fair point. Perhaps the stream error indicator is just to indicate errors external to the program? I noticed a different work around in busybox which only works for single threaded progs (which should be fine for coreutils). http://www.busybox.net/downloads/patches/svn-14627.patch Pádraig.
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