Re: [PATCH] Don't error out if stdin/stdout/stderr was already closed.

[Jim Meyering]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> James Youngman wrote:
...
>> * lib/close-stream.c (close_stream): Make boolean variables const
>> to document the fact that we set but do not change them.
...
> However, the const-adding part of your patch would be find all by itself.

I've pushed this in your name:

>From 1e47f69a052a8db2db332d55044b31f61a87c0ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Youngman <address@hidden>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:48:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] close-stream: declare local scalars to be "const"

* lib/close-stream.c (close_stream): Make boolean variables const
to document the fact that we set but do not change them.
---
 ChangeLog          |    6 ++++++
 lib/close-stream.c |    6 +++---
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0ee4f00..6a39d27 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2010-04-11  James Youngman  <address@hidden>
+
+       close-stream: declare local scalars to be "const"
+       * lib/close-stream.c (close_stream): Make boolean variables const
+       to document the fact that we set but do not change them.
+
 2010-04-11  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        maint.mk: don't include dist-check.mk
diff --git a/lib/close-stream.c b/lib/close-stream.c
index cf0422f..87a59e4 100644
--- a/lib/close-stream.c
+++ b/lib/close-stream.c
@@ -55,9 +55,9 @@
 int
 close_stream (FILE *stream)
 {
-  bool some_pending = (__fpending (stream) != 0);
-  bool prev_fail = (ferror (stream) != 0);
-  bool fclose_fail = (fclose (stream) != 0);
+  const bool some_pending = (__fpending (stream) != 0);
+  const bool prev_fail = (ferror (stream) != 0);
+  const bool fclose_fail = (fclose (stream) != 0);

   /* Return an error indication if there was a previous failure or if
      fclose failed, with one exception: ignore an fclose failure if
--
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