On 02/17/2017 09:07 AM, Jeff King wrote: > [...] > That's similar to what I wrote earlier, but if we don't mind overwriting > errno unconditionally, I think just: > > errno = EIO; /* covers ferror(), overwritten by failing fclose() */ > err |= ferror(fp); > err |= fclose(fp); > > does the same thing.
True; I'd forgotten the convention that non-failing functions are allowed to change errno. Your solution is obviously simpler and faster. Michael