Bug in cut

[Richard Hoyle]

On Nov 23, 2007 2:43 AM, Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > b) Why do some utils finish with a (indirect) call to
> >    fflush(stdout), and others do not?  Wouldn't it be better to
> >    call fflush in all utils or call fflush in none?
>
> It allows them to return exit code 1 ("error") if there was
> a problem writing to standard output.
>
> It should be done only in those utilities which primary
> result is stdout output (e.g. cat, sort, sed).
> For example, modprobe does not need to do that.

Would that then be a good argument for adding it to cut, as per my first
post?

Anyway, wow, thanks for the full and speedy reply!

All the best,

===Rich