On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Tobias Ulmer <tobi...@tmux.org> wrote:
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> strip also tries to loop over multiple files despite previous errors and
> returns an error code in the end. There are gotos sprinkled throughout
> to support this. I don't think that is helpful at all and have changed
> it to immediately terminate.
Umm, no. To quote POSIX, XCU, Section 1.4, "CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS":
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The following shall apply to each utility, unless otherwise stated:
7 If the requested action cannot be performed on an operand
representing a file,
directory, user, process, and so on, the utility shall issue a
diagnostic message to
standard error and continue processing the next operand in
sequence, but the
final exit status shall be returned as non-zero.
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strip's description then says:
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CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS
Default.
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So the part of your patch that makes it abort on the first error is
certainly not acceptable.
Philip Guenther
