Hello Paul, * Paul Eggert wrote on Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 12:18:31AM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> That doesn't sound like much of a real problem, but if it is, this > >> looks to me like a band-aid that doesn't solve things; it'd cut down > >> the number of bogus messages without eliminating them. > > > > This I don't understand. If I do the output with one `echo', with sane > > shells > > That's the part I'm worried about. :-)
Oh. Well, if the shell is not sane in this respect, then I don't see what we should do about it. Sure, one could try all kinds of different methods (let `cat' produce the output, for example), but it does not seem like it would get anywhere closer to being certain. So yes, it may not eliminate them on all systems. > > that will cause exactly one `write', > > Aren't they often buffered, if the string is long enough? Well, the point was that --version output is short, typically shorter than PIPE_BUF. > How about > > * gnulib-tool (func_version): Create output all at once. This > may help avoid triggering unnecessary SIGPIPEs, and at any > rate it doesn't hurt. Yes, that sounds good. I used that. Cheers, and thanks, Ralf
