-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Meyering on 10/19/2007 11:30 AM: >> Is it worth changing >> POSIX to require ferror() to be reliably set? Or is it at least worth > > How about *allowing* ferror to be reliably set?
Which brings up another issue (although it is too late to get this into the next revision of POSIX) - it would be really nice to have an fseterr() function. Here's part of what gnulib had to do in order to write a POSIX-compliant wrapper around fprintf for broken platforms: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=lib/fseterr.c;h=4ca0a34;hb=78da34d It breaks into the opaque FILE* on platforms where this is possible, but otherwise, is stuck using a six-syscall workaround just to force a stream to set its ferror() flag. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHGO0u84KuGfSFAYARAvQZAKCoVaNb7JSU5/pn8ImkZVEmKPnVpgCgsf08 opYJPPcMNwGqgoFyagrUyrI= =lQ9H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
