Hi, Patching bltin/printf.c to generate an error message does not seem to make much sense given that the non-zero exit status is set by eval.c. Why can the error message not be generated there as well? This is also what I do in FreeBSD sh (and I return exit status 2 instead of 1 in this situation).
Note that echo and printf are not the only builtins that output things to stdout and can encounter errors because of that. Some shells ignore this fact, pretending it is OK if builtins like jobs, set, times and trap cannot write their output. ksh93 and mksh appear not to print an error message either. -- Jilles Tjoelker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
