[File] [PATCH] handle full disk space errors as failure

Dirk Müller dirk at dmllr.de
Thu Mar 17 21:13:49 UTC 2022


do a final fflush of stdout even in buffered mode
so that a ENOSPACE is caught and propagated as an exit
code 1 so that the surrounding logic can detect and
handle it as a failure rather than silently misbehaving.

reproducer is

file somefile > /dev/full && echo exit code was 0
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