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Martijn Dekker fed1a562c3 Make I/O errors fatal instead of mere warnings (#63)
An input/output error indicates a fatal condition, even if it
occurs when closing a file. Awk should not return success on I/O
error, but treat I/O errors as it already treats write errors.

Test case:

$ (trap '' PIPE; awk 'BEGIN { print "hi"; }'; echo "E $?" >&2) | :
awk: i/o error occurred while closing /dev/stdout
 source line number 1
E 2

The test case pipes a line into a dummy command that reads no
input, with SIGPIPE ignored so we rely on awk's own I/O checking.
No write error is detected, because the pipe is buffered; the
broken pipe is only detected as an I/O error on closing stdout.

Before this commit, "E 0" was printed (indicating status 0/success)
because an I/O error merely produced a warning. A shell script
was unable to detect the I/O error using the exit status.
2020-01-17 14:02:57 +02:00
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README.TESTS

The archive of test files contains 

- A shell file called REGRESS that controls the testing process.

- Several shell files called Compare* that control sub-parts
of the testing.

- About 160 small tests called t.* that constitute a random
sampling of awk constructions collected over the years.
Not organized, but they touch almost everything.

- About 60 small tests called p.* that come from the first
two chapters of The AWK Programming Language.  This is
basic stuff -- they have to work.

These two sets are intended as regression tests, to be sure
that a new version produces the same results as a previous one.
There are a couple of standard data files used with them,
test.data and test.countries, but others would work too.

- About 20 files called T.* that are self-contained and
more systematic tests of specific language features.
For example, T.clv tests command-line variable handling.
These tests are not regressions -- they compute the right
answer by separate means, then compare the awk output.
A specific test for each new bug found shows up in at least
one of these, most often T.misc.  There are about 220 tests
total in these files.

- Two of these files, T.re and T.sub, are systematic tests
of the regular expression and substitution code.  They express
tests in a small language, then generate awk programs that
verify behavior.

- About 20 files called tt.* that are used as timing tests;
they use the most common awk constructions in straightforward
ways, against a large input file constructed by Compare.tt.


There is undoubtedly more stuff in the archive;  it's been
collecting for years and may need pruning.  Suggestions for
improvement, additional tests (especially systematic ones),
and the like are all welcome.