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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2012-09-23 11:33:01 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2012-10-04 21:33:06 +0200
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maint: make-prime-list: do not ignore write failure
Even though this is just a helper program that is run solely to create primes.h, it should not ignore a write failure. Normally we would simply call atexit (close_stdout), but we cannot do that from this helper program, since it must be built before the generated header, primes.h. If we were to make the linking of make-prime-list depend on libcoreutils.a, that would add all lib/*.o files to the list of dependents of $(BUILT_HEADERS). Then, since there is currently no provision to ensure that a file like lib/stdio.h (another built header) is built before the first lib/*.o file that also includes <stdio.h>, some lib/*.o files would be built before lib/stdio.h and some after. The former would provoke link failures due to undefined rpl_* functions. * src/make-prime-list.c: Include <errno.h>. (fclose): Undef, so that a definition to rpl_fclose does not cause a link failure. (main): Per the above, in this exceptional case, we check for fclose and ferror failure manually, and don't worry about the ferror-only failure case in which errno may not be relevant.
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