Re: 5.96: 3 test failures on HP-UX 11.23

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Paul,

* Paul Eggert wrote on Tue, May 30, 2006 at 09:51:17AM CEST:
> Thanks for reporting this.  All these failures seem to be due to a
> portability problem in lib/closeout.c.  Could you please run, say, "cp
> --verbose /dev/null /tmp/foo >&- >/dev/null" in a debugger, putting a
> breakpoint on the close_stdout function, and see why it isn't calling
> 'error' with a nonzero exit_failure value?

(I assume you meant "... >&- 2>/dev/null".)

80        if (prev_fail || fclose_fail)
(gdb) bt full
#0  close_stdout () at ../../coreutils-5.96/lib/closeout.c:80
        prev_fail = 0 '\000'
        none_pending = 0 '\000'
        fclose_fail = 0 '\000'
#1  0x7afbb880 in exit+0x70 () from /usr/lib/libc.2
No symbol table info available.
#2  0x7960 in main (argc=4, argv=0x7eff02f4) at 
../../coreutils-5.96/src/cp.c:1022
        c = -1
        ok = 1 '\001'
        make_backups = 0 '\000'
        backup_suffix_string = 0x0
        version_control_string = 0x0
        x = {backup_type = no_backups, copy_as_regular = 1 '\001', dereference 
= DEREF_ALWAYS,
  unlink_dest_before_opening = 0 '\000', unlink_dest_after_failed_open = 0 
'\000', hard_link = 0 '\000',
  interactive = I_UNSPECIFIED, move_mode = 0 '\000', chown_privileges = 0 
'\000', one_file_system = 0 '\000',
  preserve_ownership = 0 '\000', preserve_mode = 0 '\000', preserve_timestamps 
= 0 '\000', preserve_links = 0 '\000',
  require_preserve = 0 '\000', recursive = 0 '\000', set_mode = 0 '\000', mode 
= 0, sparse_mode = SPARSE_AUTO,
  symbolic_link = 0 '\000', umask_kill = 65533, update = 0 '\000', verbose = 1 
'\001', stdin_tty = 0 '\000',
  dest_info = 0x0, src_info = 0x0}
        copy_contents = 0 '\000'
        target_directory = 0x0
        no_target_directory = 0 '\000'
(gdb) p errno
A
$2 = 2

Seems "fclose (stdout)" isn't returning an error in this case.

Cheers,
Ralf