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Re: url's in --help output


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: url's in --help output
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:03:13 -0700
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According to Simon Josefsson on 1/22/2009 3:29 AM:
> +
> +void
> +emit_bug_reporting_address (void)
> +{
> +  /* TRANSLATORS: The placeholder indicates the bug-reporting address
> +     for this package.  Please add _another line_ saying
> +     "Report translation bugs to <...>\n" with the address for translation
> +     bugs (typically your translation team's web or email address).  */
> +  printf (_("\nReport bugs to <%s>.\n"), PACKAGE_BUGREPORT);
> +  printf (_("%s home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/%s/\n";),
> +       PACKAGE_NAME, PACKAGE);
> +  printf (_("General help using GNU software: 
> http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/\n";));

In m4, I was using xprintf instead of printf.  Is it worth the extra
security here?  printf can fail for reasons like ENOMEM which do not set
the ferror flag and thus are not caught by the close_stdout atexit module,
so a robust program should be checking for failures.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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