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. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
