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Re: [PATCH] head,tail: consistently diagnose write errors
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: [PATCH] head,tail: consistently diagnose write errors |
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Wed, 29 Jan 2014 18:43:19 +0000 |
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On 01/29/2014 12:06 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> + tail now diagnoses all failures when writing to stdout. Previously write
> + errors could have been silently ignored if some data was output.
> + [This bug was present in "the beginning".]
Actually this is not the case. The atexit handler would have caught
partial write failures, albeit with a less detailed error message.
So I'll remove the NEWS but leave the code changes.
thanks,
Pádraig.