pete@kvvax4.UUCP (Pete Story) (01/04/70)
<for mailers?> If you use error(1) to put error messages back into source files, and you happen to get a full file system or other write errors, you are going to lose your source. Here is a fix, with no guarantees (my file system isn't full any more, so I can't test it). 1a2,6 > /* KV id : @(#)errortouch.c 1.2 > * modified : Fri Feb 10 15:30:45 GMT+1:00 1984, by pete > * to check the return codes from fwrite and avoid losing sources on > * full file systems, etc > */ 385c390,394 < fwrite(edbuffer, 1, bytes_read, n_touchedfile); --- > if (fwrite(edbuffer, 1, bytes_read, n_touchedfile) != bytes_read) { > fprintf(stderr,"%s: write error in touching, no change made\n", > processname); > return(-1); > } -- Pete Story {decvax,philabs}!mcvax!kvport!kvvax4!pete A/S Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk, PO Box 25, N3601 Kongsberg, Norway