Re: Frozen state generation fails with returncode 0

[Eric Blake]

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According to Eric Blake on 5/21/2008 9:51 PM:
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| Thanks for the report.  Which version of m4 was this against?  I'm
| guessing this was against a release tarball, rather than the current git
| repository, since this area of code has changed in the meantime?

It turns out that a prior change already fixed this:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=m4.git;a=commitdiff;h=910837e#patch7

This patch is in the beta 1.4.10b (and thus will be in 1.6), but did not
get backported to 1.4.11.

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| | Wouldn't it be consistent to also exit on open() failures,
| | with this one-line patch or equivalent ?
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| abort() is too strong - users should not get a core dump merely because
| they requested a file that can't be opened.  So I'll be applying this
| instead:

I'm still applying a portion of this change, since testing for this
condition is worthwhile, but am no longer using the freeze.c change.  If I
decide that the 1.6 release is taking too long, I might get around to
releasing 1.4.12, and this would be one of the patches I would backport.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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