GNU bug report logs - #44320
[PATH] [27.1] Make sure send-string-to-terminal send all contents

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lin Sun <lin.sun <at> zoom.us>

Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 23:03:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #56 received at 44320 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, sunlin7 <at> yahoo.com, 44320 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, lin.sun <at> zoom.us
Subject: Re: bug#44320: [PATH] [27.1] Make sure send-string-to-terminal send
 all contents
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2020 19:02:32 +0100

On Nov 02 2020, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
>> Cc: lin.sun <at> zoom.us,  larsi <at> gnus.org,  sunlin7 <at> yahoo.com,
>>   44320 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2020 18:36:09 +0100
>> 
>> On Nov 02 2020, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 
>> > So it looks like only the last call didn't write anything?
>> 
>> Correct.  A partial write never reports an error.
>
> Not sure I understand the last sentence: in this case 'fwrite' should
> have returned a value less than the amount it was asked to write, and
> errno should have been set to EINTR, correct?

Only when it actually writes the data.  Without fflush, you will never
know when that happens.

Andreas.

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