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From: geoff@utstat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: slight bug in stdio library (puts)
Message-ID: <1987Jul4.220152.8821@utstat.uucp>
Date: Sat, 4-Jul-87 22:01:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: utstat.1987Jul4.220152.8821
Posted: Sat Jul  4 22:01:52 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 5-Jul-87 01:36:45 EDT
References: <614@uokmax.UUCP>
Organization: Statistics, U. of Toronto
Lines: 17
Summary: what about returned values?

In article <614@uokmax.UUCP> rmtodd@uokmax.UUCP (Richard Todd) writes:
 [the new puts should be:]
> puts(s) char *s; {
> 	fputs(s,stdout);
> 	fputc('\n',stdout);
> }

puts returns EOF on errors, so it should really be something like this:

#include <stdio.h>
puts(s)
char *s;
{
	return fputs(s, stdout) == EOF || putchar('\n') == EOF? EOF: 0;
}
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Geoff Collyer	utzoo!utstat!geoff, utstat.toronto.{edu,cdn}!geoff