Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mmintl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: casts to void Message-ID: <603@mmintl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 13:12:05 EDT Article-I.D.: mmintl.603 Posted: Thu Aug 15 13:12:05 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 01:11:21 EDT References: <485@brl-tgr.ARPA> <361@baylor.UUCP> Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT Lines: 7 Summary: Write to stderr In article <361@baylor.UUCP> peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: >OK. What should my whizzbang filter do when a write fails, other than >write an error message and quit? Nothing. You should write an error message to stderr and quit. If the write to stderr fails, feel free to give up entirely. But don't fail to detect the error on the original write.