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authorEric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>2009-08-28 10:59:16 -0600
committerEric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>2009-08-28 12:56:51 -0600
commit31fa922e5765a24786061a4dfbd048869457cf84 (patch)
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parent59a6ddfca34bea0d657cf4d9f56aa6d5bab4a7a1 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-31fa922e5765a24786061a4dfbd048869457cf84.tar.xz
dd: detect closed stderr
* src/dd.c (maybe_close_stdout): Always flush stderr; regression introduced in commit 381e69ea. * tests/misc/close-stdout (p): Use consistent style. * tests/dd/stderr: New test, borrowing from misc/close-stdout. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Run it. * NEWS: Mention this.
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@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
cp, mv now ignore failure to preserve a symlink time stamp, when it is
due to their running on a kernel older than what was implied by headers
and libraries tested at configure time.
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-7.5]
+
+ dd now returns non-zero status if it encountered a write error while
+ printing a summary to stderr.
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-6.11]
* Noteworthy changes in release 7.5 (2009-08-20) [stable]