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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
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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.