annotate lib/closeout.c @ 7292:17785d5bede0

Fix docstrings
author Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>
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1 /* Close standard output, exiting with a diagnostic on error.
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3 Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006 Free
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4 Software Foundation, Inc.
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6 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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7 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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8 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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9 any later version.
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11 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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14 GNU General Public License for more details.
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16 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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17 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
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18 Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
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20 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
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21 # include <config.h>
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22 #endif
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24 #include "closeout.h"
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26 #include <errno.h>
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27 #include <stdio.h>
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28 #include <unistd.h>
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30 #include "gettext.h"
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31 #define _(msgid) gettext (msgid)
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33 #include "close-stream.h"
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34 #include "error.h"
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35 #include "exitfail.h"
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36 #include "quotearg.h"
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38 static const char *file_name;
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40 /* Set the file name to be reported in the event an error is detected
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41 by close_stdout. */
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42 void
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43 close_stdout_set_file_name (const char *file)
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44 {
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45 file_name = file;
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46 }
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48 /* Close standard output. On error, issue a diagnostic and _exit
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49 with status 'exit_failure'.
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51 Since close_stdout is commonly registered via 'atexit', POSIX
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52 and the C standard both say that it should not call 'exit',
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53 because the behavior is undefined if 'exit' is called more than
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54 once. So it calls '_exit' instead of 'exit'. If close_stdout
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55 is registered via atexit before other functions are registered,
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56 the other functions can act before this _exit is invoked.
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58 Applications that use close_stdout should flush any streams
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59 other than stdout and stderr before exiting, since the call to
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60 _exit will bypass other buffer flushing. Applications should
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61 be flushing and closing other streams anyway, to check for I/O
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62 errors. Also, applications should not use tmpfile, since _exit
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63 can bypass the removal of these files.
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64
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65 It's important to detect such failures and exit nonzero because many
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66 tools (most notably `make' and other build-management systems) depend
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67 on being able to detect failure in other tools via their exit status. */
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69 void
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70 close_stdout (void)
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71 {
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72 if (close_stream (stdout) != 0)
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73 {
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74 char const *write_error = _("write error");
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75 if (file_name)
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76 error (0, errno, "%s: %s", quotearg_colon (file_name),
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77 write_error);
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78 else
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79 error (0, errno, "%s", write_error);
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81 _exit (exit_failure);
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82 }
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83 }