Re: proposed change to closeout module

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Paul and Jim,
>
> The closeout module currently ignores write failures on stderr.
> This patch makes it report failures on stderr through an exit status.

Hi Bruno,

I like the idea, but I've never worried about this case on the principle
that if a program is already writing to stderr, it's usually because
it's going to exit nonzero anyway.

I hope you don't mind waiting a few days for feedback.  I'm concentrating
on making a stable coreutils-6.3 release.