-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Meyering on 8/28/2009 6:50 AM: > dd is relatively unusual in that it is required > to write to stderr, even upon successful completion. > At first glance, I don't see language in the spec saying > what dd must do when writing to stderr fails.
I think we point to an overall requirement in POSIX that all write failures should be diagnosed. True, we can't diagnose it by writing an error message to stderr (since stderr is closed), but POSIX is clear that any attempt to diagnose an error must also cause non-zero status. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkqX1BsACgkQ84KuGfSFAYAwzQCgsNWN+wv9xXf9UH5OSmpx+5yj iSkAn3pVx9/gKENjT5AzFsH+bbqBEfLg =YTLA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
