coreutils/lib/closeout.c
Jim Meyering 8d83abaf89 (close_stdout_status): If ferror (stdout), do
not silently exit merely because the output buffer happens to
have nothing pending.
2001-12-20 10:01:25 +00:00

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/* closeout.c - close standard output
Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
#if HAVE_CONFIG_H
# include <config.h>
#endif
#if ENABLE_NLS
# include <libintl.h>
# define _(Text) gettext (Text)
#else
# define _(Text) Text
#endif
#if HAVE_STDLIB_H
# include <stdlib.h>
#endif
#ifndef EXIT_FAILURE
# define EXIT_FAILURE 1
#endif
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
#ifndef errno
extern int errno;
#endif
#include "closeout.h"
#include "error.h"
#include "quotearg.h"
#include "unlocked-io.h"
#include "__fpending.h"
static int default_exit_status = EXIT_FAILURE;
static const char *file_name;
/* Set the value to be used for the exit status when close_stdout is called.
This is useful when it is not convenient to call close_stdout_status,
e.g., when close_stdout is called via atexit. */
void
close_stdout_set_status (int status)
{
default_exit_status = status;
}
/* Set the file name to be reported in the event an error is detected
by close_stdout_status. */
void
close_stdout_set_file_name (const char *file)
{
file_name = file;
}
/* Close standard output, exiting with status STATUS on failure.
If a program writes *anything* to stdout, that program should `fflush'
stdout and make sure that it succeeds before exiting. Otherwise,
suppose that you go to the extreme of checking the return status
of every function that does an explicit write to stdout. The last
printf can succeed in writing to the internal stream buffer, and yet
the fclose(stdout) could still fail (due e.g., to a disk full error)
when it tries to write out that buffered data. Thus, you would be
left with an incomplete output file and the offending program would
exit successfully.
FIXME: note the fflush suggested above is implicit in the fclose
we actually do below. Consider doing only the fflush and/or using
setvbuf to inhibit buffering.
Besides, it's wasteful to check the return value from every call
that writes to stdout -- just let the internal stream state record
the failure. That's what the ferror test is checking below.
It's important to detect such failures and exit nonzero because many
tools (most notably `make' and other build-management systems) depend
on being able to detect failure in other tools via their exit status. */
void
close_stdout_status (int status)
{
int e = ferror (stdout) ? 0 : -1;
/* If the stream's error bit is clear and there is nothing to flush,
then return right away. */
if (e && __fpending (stdout) == 0)
return;
if (fclose (stdout) != 0)
e = errno;
if (0 <= e)
{
char const *write_error = _("write error");
if (file_name)
error (status, e, "%s: %s", quotearg_colon (file_name), write_error);
else
error (status, e, "%s", write_error);
}
}
/* Close standard output, exiting with status EXIT_FAILURE on failure. */
void
close_stdout (void)
{
close_stdout_status (default_exit_status);
}