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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2013-01-07 21:07:19 -0800
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2013-01-07 21:07:19 -0800
commitca6a2684bde181c5d15cba08b86304f7f8e222af (patch)
tree315a880c456892bc801c5ce8462d37deaf951471
parent83c1803a3a78262ae7a0954e18f35cff5c2f70f9 (diff)
Merge from gnulib (comment change only).
-rw-r--r--lib/strftime.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/strftime.c b/lib/strftime.c
index 213ced860d..c82d585bfa 100644
--- a/lib/strftime.c
+++ b/lib/strftime.c
@@ -208,7 +208,14 @@ extern char *tzname[];
else if (to_uppcase) \
fwrite_uppcase (p, (s), _n); \
else \
- fwrite (s, _n, 1, p); \
+ { \
+ /* Ignore the value of fwrite. The caller can determine whether \
+ an error occured by inspecting ferror (P). All known fwrite \
+ implementations set the stream's error indicator when they \
+ fail due to ENOMEM etc., even though C11 and POSIX.1-2008 do \
+ not require this. */ \
+ fwrite (s, _n, 1, p); \
+ } \
} \
while (0) \
)