On 8/13/04 5:23 PM, Perrin Harkins wrote: > On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 17:15, John Siracusa wrote: >> Something tells me you haven't been bitten by this bug yet, but let me save >> you the grief. When, say, your disk fills up and you let that file handle >> go out of scope, close() will silently fail when trying to flush the buffers >> to disk. > > If you're concerned about that, you should actually check the return > value of print() as well.
Believe me, everyone should be "concerned about that" :) Also, the return value from print() is not always useful. In the situation I described, for example, print will happily return 1 so long as what it's printing fits in the output buffer, regardless of whether or not the data is actually going to make it to the disk. Checking the return value from close() gives a more reliable answer, and you only have to do it once at the end. -John -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
