On 6/10/14, 10:35 PM, Chen Gang wrote:
> For regular file, write() operation may also fail, so check it too. If
> write() return 0, can simply wait and try again, it should not suspend
> infinitely if environments have no critical issues.
Readline-6.3 checks the return value from write() and returns a non-zero
value to the history_truncate_file caller. I really don't think that
waiting forever if write continues to return 0 is a great idea; an error
return is enough to let the caller deal with it.
Chet
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