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Re: [PATCH 2/2] tee: add --write-error to control handling of closed pip
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: [PATCH 2/2] tee: add --write-error to control handling of closed pipes |
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Mon, 02 Mar 2015 08:48:52 +0000 |
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On 02/03/15 07:20, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 02/26/2015 10:30 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> Perhaps we should generalize this to --on-error to cater for all cases?
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> maybe yes. We'll only have a problem if the OpenGroup would define
> the behavior wrt. open() failures in a different direction than our
> implementation ... which is then bound to the behavior upon write()
> failures. I think it would be best to let POSIX clarify on this
> first. WDYT?
It would be an extreme edge case that you'd want to ignore open() errors,
while honoring write() errors. I'll send a patch to merge both under the
--output-error option, rather than --write-error.
thanks,
Pádraig.