Re: proposed change to closeout module

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> As I understand it this affects only programs
> that issue "warnings" (i.e., they output to stderr but then continue
> without affecting the exit status)

Yes, exactly. xgettext is such a program. Or also GNU tar, when
invoked as "tar xOvf tarfile somefile-in-it".

> However, wouldn't this implementation be simpler?
> 
>    if (close_stream (stderr) != 0)
>      _exit (exit_failure);

Yes. The 8 lines of code of stderr are a stripped-down version of
fwriteerror_no_ebadf which has the same semantics as close_stream.

Bruno