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sr #110300: configure >/dev/full does not fail promptly

Submitter:  Zack Weinberg <zackw>
Submitted:  Fri 28 Aug 2020 02:54:33 PM UTC
   
 
Priority:  * 2 - Eventually Severity:  3 - Normal
Status:  Confirmed Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Open
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Fri 08 Dec 2023 01:51:48 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Using `set -e` in configure is abstractly desirable but will be an enormous amount of work. Not going to happen until someone signs up to do that work.

Zack Weinberg <zackw>
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Fri 28 Aug 2020 02:56:23 PM UTC, comment #1: 

This is a long-standing issue.  Also, the cleanest way to detect these errors would be to turn on `set -e` mode, which would probably expose all kinds of other latent issues that we'd then have to fix.  So this is a post-2.70 project.

Zack Weinberg <zackw>
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Fri 28 Aug 2020 02:54:33 PM UTC, original submission:  

If you run a configure script with stdout pointed to a data sink that fails all writes (e.g. `./configure > /dev/full` or `./configure 1< /dev/null`) you get a flood of "printf: write error" messages, but the script runs all the way to completion, and then it may or may not exit successfully depending on exactly what you did.

The script should instead exit unsuccessfully after the first write error.

Zack Weinberg <zackw>
Group administrator

 

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