Patch from Matt Kraai so wc will return a proper error code
when failing to open a file, and will not use file when it
didn't open the file.
-Erik
diff --git a/coreutils/wc.c b/coreutils/wc.c
index 9d56945..e6f7534 100644
--- a/coreutils/wc.c
+++ b/coreutils/wc.c
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
{
FILE *file;
unsigned int num_files_counted = 0;
- int opt;
+ int opt, status = EXIT_SUCCESS;
total_lines = total_words = total_chars = max_length = 0;
print_lines = print_words = print_chars = print_length = 0;
@@ -137,8 +137,10 @@
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
} else {
while (optind < argc) {
- file = xfopen(argv[optind], "r");
- wc_file(file, argv[optind]);
+ if ((file = wfopen(argv[optind], "r")) != NULL)
+ wc_file(file, argv[optind]);
+ else
+ status = EXIT_FAILURE;
num_files_counted++;
optind++;
}
@@ -148,5 +150,5 @@
print_counts(total_lines, total_words, total_chars,
max_length, "total");
- return EXIT_SUCCESS;
+ return status;
}