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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] eutils.eclass: Add awk wrapper - eawk - edit file in place
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 09:36:07
Message-Id: 22333.35065.517761.668988@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] eutils.eclass: Add awk wrapper - eawk - edit file in place by "Amadeusz Żołnowski"
1 >>>>> On Wed, 18 May 2016, Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote:
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3 >> Also, wouldn't the absence of 'die' cause silent breakages?
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5 > I want to caller decide whether die or not and what error messge to
6 > give.
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8 The EAPI 6 method would be to use "|| die -n". Then the caller can
9 either call "eawk" if the function should die automatically, or
10 "nonfatal eawk" if it should return with an error status.
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12 Ulrich

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