Konstantin Belousov <[email protected]> writes: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[email protected]> writes: > > Konstantin Belousov <[email protected]> writes: > > > Why is this check needed? > > POSIX requires it. > Could you please point me to the requirement?
General Assertion 39 in the Unix Conformance test suite. Not sure exactly which part of the standard it maps to. > Some programs do this 'err(1, "stdout")' call due to libxo error, > which is not exactly due to stdout error state. Yes, this is how we detect a write error on stdout when using libxo. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [email protected]
