Re: printf does not always display warning messages on write errors

[Chet Ramey]

Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Hi everybody.
> 
> I found the following bug while running some of my bash scripts on 
> GNU/Linux with stdout redirected to /dev/full, to see if write errors
> where correctly detected and reported.
> 
> It turned out that, on write errors, the printf builtin correctly
> returns a non-zero status (thus my scripts at least had a correct
> exit status), but unfortunately it does not always display a suitable
> error message on stderr; in particular, it fails to do so if the
> printed  string does *not* end with a newline. 

Thanks for the report.  This will be fixed in the next version.

Chet
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