Stefano Lattarini wrote:
Hi everybody.
I found the following bug while running some of my bash scripts on
GNU/Linux with stdout redirected to /dev/full, to see if write errors
where correctly detected and reported.
It turned out that, on write errors, the printf builtin correctly
returns a non-zero status (thus my scripts at least had a correct
exit status), but unfortunately it does not always display a suitable
error message on stderr; in particular, it fails to do so if the
printed string does *not* end with a newline.
Thanks for the report. This will be fixed in the next version.
Chet
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