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| -rw-r--r-- | inotail.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -221,8 +221,13 @@ static ssize_t tail_pipe(struct file_struct *f) write_header(f->name); /* We will just tail everything here */ - while ((rc = read(f->fd, buf, BUFFER_SIZE)) > 0) - write(STDOUT_FILENO, buf, (size_t) rc); + while ((rc = read(f->fd, buf, BUFFER_SIZE)) > 0) { + if (write(STDOUT_FILENO, buf, (size_t) rc)) { + /* e.g. when writing to a pipe which gets closed */ + fprintf(stderr, "Error: Could not write to stdout: %s\n", strerror(errno)); + return -1; + } + } return rc; } |