Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.72e] testsuite: 11 119 261 failed on Solaris 11.4 x86
Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs |
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| Organization | UCLA Computer Science Department |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 2023-12-21 13:19, Zack Weinberg wrote: > Sorry, I'm with GNU here: failure to report errors on writing to stdout > is a bug. No excuses will be accepted. Agreed. printf commands that silently succeed when they can't do the requested action are simply broken. Even if one is not convinced by GNU's good-citizen example, POSIX requires printf to fail with a diagnostic in this situation. Here's chapter and verse: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition/utilities/printf.html#tag_20_94_15 says "CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS" are "Default", and https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition/utilities/V3_chap01.html#tag_17_04 says that utilities must issue a diagnostic on stderr and exit with nonzero status when they cannot do the requested action.