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FRIGN 11e2d472bf Add *fshut() functions to properly flush file streams
This has been a known issue for a long time. Example:

printf "word" > /dev/full

wouldn't report there's not enough space on the device.
This is due to the fact that every libc has internal buffers
for stdout which store fragments of written data until they reach
a certain size or on some callback to flush them all at once to the
kernel.
You can force the libc to flush them with fflush(). In case flushing
fails, you can check the return value of fflush() and report an error.

However, previously, sbase didn't have such checks and without fflush(),
the libc silently flushes the buffers on exit without checking the errors.
No offense, but there's no way for the libc to report errors in the exit-
condition.

GNU coreutils solve this by having onexit-callbacks to handle the flushing
and report issues, but they have obvious deficiencies.
After long discussions on IRC, we came to the conclusion that checking the
return value of every io-function would be a bit too much, and having a
general-purpose fclose-wrapper would be the best way to go.

It turned out that fclose() alone is not enough to detect errors. The right
way to do it is to fflush() + check ferror on the fp and then to a fclose().
This is what fshut does and that's how it's done before each return.
The return value is obviously affected, reporting an error in case a flush
or close failed, but also when reading failed for some reason, the error-
state is caught.

the !!( ... + ...) construction is used to call all functions inside the
brackets and not "terminating" on the first.
We want errors to be reported, but there's no reason to stop flushing buffers
when one other file buffer has issues.
Obviously, functionales come before the flush and ret-logic comes after to
prevent early exits as well without reporting warnings if there are any.

One more advantage of fshut() is that it is even able to report errors
on obscure NFS-setups which the other coreutils are unable to detect,
because they only check the return-value of fflush() and fclose(),
not ferror() as well.
2015-04-05 09:13:56 +01:00
FRIGN e50ee15a9c Audit date(1)
1) Update usage as already done in the manpage
2) group and sort local variable declarations
3) Be pedantic about the number of options. Don't just ignore it
   if argc > 1.
2015-03-02 15:12:19 +01:00
FRIGN 31572c8b0e Clean up #includes 2015-02-14 21:12:23 +01:00
sin 8f5d77d8c7 Do not rely on the underlying type of time_t in date(1) and touch(1)
Use LLONG_MAX unconditionally.  In practice this only causes trouble
with systems that are not 2038 ready.
2015-02-08 23:45:03 +00:00
FRIGN 27b770c02c Adjust some limits to more flexibility for strtonum 2015-02-01 01:24:03 +01:00
FRIGN fd562481f3 Convert estrto{l, ul} to estrtonum
Enough with this insanity!
2015-01-30 16:52:44 +01:00
FRIGN c208c6328a Add mandoc-manpage for date(1) and clean up code
and mark it as finished in README.
2015-01-23 22:54:25 +01:00
FRIGN eee98ed3a4 Fix coding style
It was about damn time. Consistency is very important in such a
big codebase.
2014-11-13 18:08:43 +00:00
sin 0c5b7b9155 Stop using EXIT_{SUCCESS,FAILURE} 2014-10-02 23:46:59 +01:00
Hiltjo Posthuma 953ebf3573 code style
Signed-off-by: Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>
2014-06-01 18:02:30 +01:00
sin b5a511dacf Exit with EXIT_SUCCESS/EXIT_FAILURE instead of 0 and 1
Fixed for consistency purposes.
2013-10-07 16:44:22 +01:00
stateless 7216a53a7e Remove unnecessary exit(1) in usage()
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>
2013-06-19 19:58:19 +02:00
Christoph Lohmann 4d38f60685 Eliminating the getopt disgrace. 2013-06-14 20:20:47 +02:00
Robert Ransom c018f86fc7 Add -u option to date (POSIX and Plan 9, and useful) 2012-04-23 08:32:24 -07:00
Connor Lane Smith 954106050f rename estrtol 2011-06-10 14:55:01 +01:00
Connor Lane Smith 7c251bcd4f refactor strnum 2011-06-10 05:41:40 +01:00
Connor Lane Smith 416a068df6 fix head manpage 2011-05-25 11:56:04 +01:00
Connor Lane Smith 262f357fdd add head 2011-05-25 11:42:17 +01:00
Connor Lane Smith f458397d5a no, getopt.h is gnu specific 2011-05-24 18:58:36 +01:00
pancake da547fb294 add missing #include <getopt.h>
do not override CC in config.mk
2011-05-24 14:34:26 +02:00
Connor Lane Smith 9714d7b1d3 getopt 2011-05-24 01:13:34 +01:00
Connor Lane Smith 474ee643ed add sleep & date, thanks kamil 2011-05-23 19:00:31 +01:00