On Thu, Dec 21, 2023, at 3:51 PM, Nick Bowler wrote: > On 2023-12-21 13:48, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > and an unsuccessful exit status. I would guess that on your machine > > the printf built-in and/or standalone printf executable are not > > reporting write errors. > > I think it is not reasonable to expect any utility to report any kind > of error on writes to standard output. This is not normal behaviour > for C programs and, in the case of printf utilities which are not shell > builtins, such behaviour is likely unique to GNU.
Sorry, I'm with GNU here: failure to report errors on writing to stdout is a bug. No excuses will be accepted. zw
