Another conformance question... This time fputs().

[Andrey Chernov]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 02:04:59AM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> errno = 9, rc = -1
> fwrite errno = 9, rc = 0
> 
> Just to save you the grepping, errno #9 is EBADF, "bad file number".  

They are right. According to POSIX for fwrite(), fputs(), fputc():

[EBADF] The file descriptor underlying stream is not a valid file 
descriptor open for writing.

> In both cases, we get EACCES for fputs() or fwrite() attempts on a 

There is no EACCES in POSIX for this functions. Please don't reinvent the 
wheel.

The next almost matching candidate for this functions is only:

[ENXIO] A request was made of a nonexistent device, or the request was 
outside the capabilities of the device.

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