Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.72e] testsuite: 11 119 261 failed on Solaris 11.4 x86

[Zack Weinberg]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2023, at 3:51 PM, Nick Bowler wrote:
> On 2023-12-21 13:48, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>  > and an unsuccessful exit status.  I would guess that on your machine
>  > the printf built-in and/or standalone printf executable are not
>  > reporting write errors.
>
> I think it is not reasonable to expect any utility to report any kind
> of error on writes to standard output.  This is not normal behaviour
> for C programs and, in the case of printf utilities which are not shell
> builtins, such behaviour is likely unique to GNU.

Sorry, I'm with GNU here: failure to report errors on writing to stdout
is a bug.  No excuses will be accepted.

zw