Your message dated Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:08:25 +0200
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and subject line Bug#407454 fixed in version 1:3.1.7.dfsg-1
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regarding gawk: bails out with fatal error on getline x < f if f is a dir
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Package: gawk
Version: 1:3.1.5.dfsg-4
Severity: important
hi,
I think gawk does the wrong thing here, and badly since you'd expect to
catch and handle the situation in the .awk but instead you're kicked out.
According to manpage:
The getline command returns 0 on end of file and -1 on an
error. Upon an error, ERRNO contains a string describing
the problem.
which means that program shouldn't fail, only that return code and ERRNO
should be set properly.
BTW, the manpage is incomplete wrt getline, it should also mention that
getline return 1 on normal read - eg:
The getline command returns 1 on normal (successful) read, 0 on
end of file and -1 on an error. Upon an error, ERRNO contains a
string describing the problem.
thanks
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paolo
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Package: gawk
Version: 1:3.1.7.dfsg-1
This bug has been fixed upstream in release 3.1.7.
The corresponding changelog entry:
> Mon Jan 5 22:48:39 2009 Arnold D. Robbins <[email protected]>
>
> * io.c (redirect): A getline from a directory is no longer
> fatal; instead it returns -1. Thanks to Paolo <[email protected]>
> for the report.
Regards,
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Jeroen Schot
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