Re: patch: fstreams should check results of close()

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 01:34:52PM -0700, Nathan Myers wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 04:27:01PM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote:
> > There's no way I can think of to write a testsuite entry for this;
> > how do we /force/ a call to, say, ofstream::close() to fail?
> 
> Can't you close the underlying filebuf manually first?  

I was imprecise:  we have to force the filebuf's close() to fail instead/also.

Does that make [more] sense?



Phil

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