lint question

Dave Jones djones at megatest.UUCP
Wed Jan 11 09:52:12 AEST 1989


 In article <9322 at smoke.BRL.MIL), gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
) The one possible exception is
) 	(void)fprintf(stderr, "...: operation failed\n");
) because if a write to the standard error output fails, you may have just
) exhausted your error-recovery resources and can do no better anyway.
) (What are you going to do, complain about THAT failure on stderr?)
) 


Nope.  But under Unix, I'll complain on file-descriptor 2, if I think
that might help.



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