lint question

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer):
>[...] printf is a singularly
>annoying case of a function that could fail but very rarely does, and
>is a pain to check -- especially since the type of its returned value
>is not portable among current Unixes.

One portable solution would be an occasional test of ferror(stdout).
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