On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 12:24:33PM -0400, Joseph Malicki wrote:
> Those mistakes are your ignorance. The manpage is wrong.
> It does return -1 on error.
Yes, you are right (or, at least, "a negative value").
Now you deserve a beating for noting that there is a bug on
a man page without submitting a correction, or at least
telling the maintainer. (Yes, that's me.)
> Sure, if you require an event to be successful to continue you should always
> check it. And yes, it's nice to print an error message on close sometimes,
> if something is critical. But the question to ask is what you would
> actually _DO_ about an error... if the answer is nothing,
> then why check it?
But here you are wrong. Even if the program doesn't know what to do,
the user will want to know about it. If I make a backup and some error
occurs then I would be very unhappy if the program were silent about it.
Andries
aeb@cwi.nl
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