Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could it be a bug in printf for failing, yet not setting the > stream-failure indicator that is checked by close_stdout's ferror?
A failure from printf does not necessarily mean an output failure. It can also be ENOMEM or EILSEQ, which are unrelated to output. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils