Re: [PATCH 1/3] fprintftime: depend on stdio, not ignore-value

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 01/04/2013 08:44 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
>
>> Do we even
>> know of platforms where fwrite will fail on ENOMEM without setting the
>> error indicator?
>
> I don't know of any, no.  I am assuming Jim ran into one
> at some point, but if we don't know of any, perhaps we should

Back when I first tried to trigger that bug in glibc, I found a gdb bug ;-)
so it's been a while.  I don't know.

> leave the code alone, and just add a comment saying that we're
> making an assumption that seems to be valid even though POSIX
> doesn't require it.

I would be happy with that.

>> wouldn't it better to still just call fwrite(), but
>> check for an error return, and if so, use the fseterr module
>
> Sure, I suppose, though it's hard to get excited about optimizing
> for dubious platforms.