Re: [bug-gawk] Behavior of fflush with SIGPIPE on stdout [PATCH]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 17:29:43 +0200
> From: FERRIEUX Alexandre - IMT/OLN <address@hidden>
> CC: <address@hidden>, <address@hidden>
> 
> On 26/03/2017 17:21, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >>  Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 16:39:52 +0200
> >>  From: FERRIEUX Alexandre - IMT/OLN<address@hidden>
> >>  CC:<address@hidden>,<address@hidden>
> >>
> >>  >>   Is that against portability ?
> >>  >
> >>  >  The way you want it? yes, because I cannot write a portable Awk script
> >>  >  without system dependencies.
> >>
> >>  No, not the Awk script but its caller.
> >
> > An Awk script can invoke another instance of Awk, right?
> 
> Regardless, *any* language is able to use "!=0" as a criterion instead of 
> "==1"

That's not portability in my book, because I have no way of testing
for specific kinds of errors in platform-independent way.