GNU bug report logs - #8102
[head] do not return EXIT_SUCCESS upon premature EOF

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:26:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #25 received at 8102 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Voelker, Bernhard" <bernhard.voelker <at> siemens-enterprise.com>
To: Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95 <at> gmail.com>, Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
Cc: "8102 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <8102 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: bug#8102: [head] do not return EXIT_SUCCESS upon premature EOF
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 07:58:32 +0100

Bjartur Thorlacius wrote:

> The only way I can imagine scripts braking due to head returning
> non-zero upon premature EOF are scripts that consider every non-zero
> exit fatal, but don't know many lines their input is. How many can
> they be?

well, head also returns !=0 e.g. if the file doesn't exist. Therefore,
if a script relies on this, it would fail in the future if head's
behaviour was changed.

Have a nice day,
Berny
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