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From: steved@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Steve Dempsey)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: inc loses mail when file system full
Keywords: ferror()
Message-ID: <1982@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>
Date: 1 Jun 89 17:58:03 GMT
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> Humm... Steve Dempsey's fix to inc seems overly complex. My fix for
> 6.5's inc (which should work with the 6.6 version) is to check the
> status of ferror() and fclose(); appended is a context diff.
> 
> 		Craig

[diff deleted]

I stand corrected.  This is much simpler and works just as well.  It
seems to me, however, that any such errors should be detected on read
or write long before closing the file.  And why was this fix not included
in 6.6?

        
        Steve Dempsey,  Center for Computer Assisted Engineering
  Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523    +1 303 491 0630
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