Re: 'cat' doesn't check close(STDOUT_FILENO)'s return value

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> On some operating systems, notices of output errors are sometimes
> delayed until you close the file.  However, in the normal case
> coreutils 'cat' doesn't check the return value from
> 'close(STDOUT_FILENO)'.  I installed this patch.
>
> 2005-12-13  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
>
>       * src/cat.c (main): Check for close (STDOUT_FILENO) failure.

Thanks, but why is that needed?
I was convinced that the existing `atexit (close_stdout)' covered all
the bases, since close_stdout calls `fclose (stdout)' unconditionally,
and that does the equivalent of `close (STDOUT_FILENO)'.