Re: some PRs
From: Giorgos Keramidas (keramida_at_ceid.upatras.gr)
Date: 07/27/04
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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 06:29:17 +0300 To: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>
On 2004-07-26 19:49, Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
> Max Laier wrote:
> > The question to me is, do we really want to support (read fertilize)
> > such a stupid thing? Given the chance that once we do support it
> > people will use it. In my opinion it is bad to integrate something
> > into base that we agree is nothing one should ever have created (at
> > least that's my reading of the thread so far). I see no user-pessure
> > for this.
>
> I'm about a week behind :-) but here are my 2 cents: it's a VERY
> useful device for testing. Not checking the error code of write(),
> printf() and such is a typical bug, so making it easy to detect by
> switching the output to /dev/full (or creating a symlink to it) is a
> very good idea. Like this:
>
> yourprogram >/dev/full \
> && echo "The program does not check for success of write()"
If a program doesn't check the return code of write() but merrily goes
on doing other stuff or even terminates with a zero return value, how
will the redirection affect its operation? I think it won't, as shown
in the test below (run on a Linux machine):
: $ ls -ld /dev/full
: crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 7 Jun 14 00:24 /dev/full
: $ cat -n lala.c
: 1 #include <sys/types.h>
: 2 #include <string.h>
: 3 #include <unistd.h>
: 4
: 5 int
: 6 main(void)
: 7 {
: 8 char buf[] = "hello world\n";
: 9 size_t len;
: 10
: 11 len = strlen(buf);
: 12 write(1, buf, len);
: 13 return 0;
: 14 }
: $ cc -O -W -Wall -o lala lala.c
: $ ./lala
: hello world
: $ ./lala >/dev/full
: $ echo $?
: 0
: $
The fact that /dev/full was used as the output device didn't reveal the
potential write() problem.
I must have misunderstood something. How do you mean that we could use
/dev/full for testing?
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