Re: git: c2d93a803ace - main - env: Check the status of stdout.

Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> writes:
> > > Why is this check needed?
> > POSIX requires it.
> Could you please point me to the requirement?

General Assertion 39 in the Unix Conformance test suite.  Not sure
exactly which part of the standard it maps to.

> Some programs do this 'err(1, "stdout")' call due to libxo error,
> which is not exactly due to stdout error state.

Yes, this is how we detect a write error on stdout when using libxo.

DES
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