Charles-François Natali added the comment: > Why is ferror() not reliable?
Because the glibc doesn't check the errno return code after the write() syscall, and thus doesn't set the file's stream error flag (ferror() just checks this flag). That's what I saw from the code. I was a little surprised when Jaako says that ferror() is enough to detect this, so I modified Serhiy code to print ferror(), and actually ferror() reports an error for subsequent writes, not for the first one (probably because the error goes unnoticed only when the buffer is in a particular state). So in short, errno is the only reliable way to check for errors :-( ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17976> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
