I was just testing a framebuffer device here and noticed that there were 2 errors printed by `tr`
$ tr '\0' $(($RANDOM % 256)) </dev/zero >/dev/full tr: write error: No space left on device tr: write error I was then wondering it there was some other error with the device rather than just filling it. But the latter error is just closeout() noticing the original write error, and diagnosing just in case the original writer did not. So 3 options. 1. leave as is 2. assume all writers will diagnose, so don't diagnose previous errors in closeout() 3. make it configurable (with close_stdout_set_ignore_previous()) I might just leave as is? cheers, Pádraig.
