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Re: proposed change to closeout module
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Eric Blake |
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Re: proposed change to closeout module |
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Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:42:53 +0000 (UTC) |
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Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes:
>
> 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.
M4 is an example of an exception - it can write to stderr with 0 exit status
due to the 'errprint' and 'dumpdef' macros. I already have on my TODO list to
make CVS M4 use the closeout module (right now, it can't until I get m4 quit
using tmpfile), and this would be an appropriate behavior to have.
>
> I hope you don't mind waiting a few days for feedback. I'm concentrating
> on making a stable coreutils-6.3 release.
I'm not in any hurry from m4's side of things, so waiting a couple days for
coreutils-6.3 to be final before making this change would suit me, too.
--
Eric Blake