Re: WHINY_USERS=0

[Hermann Peifer]

John Cowan wrote:
> Aharon Robbins scripsit:
>
> > The feature as coded means "if WHINY_USERS exists in the environment,
> > enable the whiny user related features." (There are at least two.)
>
> Three, but I concede that I can't figure out how to trigger the third
> use of the feature, which appears to print a warning that a file is
> unopenable just before printing a fatal error that it's unopenable.

Trying to open a directory w/o WHINY_USERS, with gawk 3.1.7 -> fatal error

$ gawk '1' somedir/ somefile
gawk: cmd. line:1: fatal: cannot open file `somedir/' for reading (Success)


With WHINY_USERS, there is only a warning and processing continues 
(somefile has only 1 record: Hello World)


$ WHINY_USERS=1 gawk '1' somedir/ somefile
gawk: cmd. line:1: warning: cannot open file `somedir/' for reading 
(Success)
Hello World


Hope this helps, Hermann