Bug#12411: [PATCH] A better Directory Lister example
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 12:53:28PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> H. S. Teoh writes ("Bug#12411: [PATCH] A better Directory Lister example"):
> ...
> > I have declined to address this, since this example is mainly concerned
> > with using the libc directory reading functions, not with handling stdout
> > errors.
>
> I actually think it's a libc bug, #28250.
OK, IMHO, #28250 should be considered a more encompassing bug that
includes this particular issue. I think for the purposes of #12411, it
should be sufficient to leave it as it is, since when (if) #28250 gets
resolved, we'll either have to revisit everything anyway, or it would be a
non-issue (depending on which of the two main options are taken, according
to the discussion in #28250 and related bugs).
[snip]
> > > * it prints the error message about failing to open the directory to
> > > stdout instead of stderr;
> >
> > The current version of the info file uses perror(), which, as far as I
> > know, print to stderr, not stdout.
>
> I think some of the things I reported must have been fixed in the
> meantime.
[snip]
Yep. So does the current example (+ patch) sufficiently address the issues
in this bug that it can be closed?
T
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