Re: failure with HEAD: stdin seekable

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Eric,

On 19 Dec 2006, at 12:22, Eric Blake-1 wrote:
> > That sounds really tricky.  Much simpler is to say: if you care about
> > the return value of a function, do the function before you call
> > 'exit'.  Once you're exiting, don't issue any diagnostics: at that
> > point your only goal is to exit cleanly.  This is the general  
> > strategy
> > that coreutils uses.
>
> Here's the patch I'm applying.  In non-interactive mode, the error
> message actually improves - it now tracks the line number of the
> m4exit that triggered the detection of the disk full write error.
> But in interactive mode, stdout is unbuffered, hence the
> write error is detected during the write rather than the fflush,
> you've already lost the errno long before.  But I don't have any
> problems with that [[snip]]

Nor me.  Nice job with the patch!

Cheers,
        Gary
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