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bug#8102: [head] do not return EXIT_SUCCESS upon premature EOF
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Voelker, Bernhard |
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bug#8102: [head] do not return EXIT_SUCCESS upon premature EOF |
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Mon, 28 Feb 2011 07:58:32 +0100 |
Bjartur Thorlacius wrote:
> The only way I can imagine scripts braking due to head returning
> non-zero upon premature EOF are scripts that consider every non-zero
> exit fatal, but don't know many lines their input is. How many can
> they be?
well, head also returns !=0 e.g. if the file doesn't exist. Therefore,
if a script relies on this, it would fail in the future if head's
behaviour was changed.
Have a nice day,
Berny