Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ateng!chip
From: chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: lint question
Message-ID: <1989Jan17.110203.24839@ateng.ateng.com>
Date: 17 Jan 89 16:02:02 GMT
References: <491@babbage.acc.virginia.edu> <1989Jan16.080743.2424@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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According to henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer):
>[...] printf is a singularly
>annoying case of a function that could fail but very rarely does, and
>is a pain to check -- especially since the type of its returned value
>is not portable among current Unixes.

One portable solution would be an occasional test of ferror(stdout).
-- 
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