Re: Undetected fatal errors from redirected print

[Miguel Pineiro Jr.]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2021, at 6:24 PM, Andrew J. Schorr wrote:
> The fclose has to do an implicit fflush, of course, before closing the file. 
> Are
> you suggesting we should call fflush prior to fclose and then issue an error 
> if
> fflush fails (but not if fclose fails)? 

Yes, to distinguish a fatal error in the print statement's output from 
subsequent, unrelated stream closing errors. Perhaps something like do_fflush 
(which understands when a redirection has been declared nonfatal).

Take care,
Miguel