Re: pg_dump return status..

ncm(at)zembu(dot)com (Nathan Myers) writes:

> An fprintf returning 0 is a suspicious event; it's easy to imagine
> cases where it makes sense, but I don't think I have ever coded one.
> Probably >N (where N is the smallest reasonable output, defaulting
> to 1) may be a better test in real code.

On older systems fprintf returns 0 on success and EOF on failure.

> As I recall, on SunOS 4 the printf()s don't return the number of
> characters written. I don't recall what they do instead, and have
> no access to such machines any more.

Probably 0/EOF. sprintf on SunOS returns its first argument.

Ian