On Sat, 23 Jan 2016 21:14:24 +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > In conclusion, i would consider it a very bad idea to change all the > operating systems to not set the error indicator, violating POSIX > and making correct coding harder, just to please the not very nice > C standard, then possibly change them all a second time once the C > standard gets fixed. > > Consequently, i propose to not revert our fgetwc(3) patch and to > commit this fputwc(3) patch, too, making us agree with FreeBSD, > NetBSD, Dragonfly, SunOS, glibc, and POSIX, even tough nominally > violating the C standard (but in a way that seems less dangerous > than the inverse violation of POSIX).
OK millert@. - todd
