Package: gawk
Version: 1:3.1.5.dfsg-4
Severity: important
hi,
I think gawk does the wrong thing here, and badly since you'd expect to
catch and handle the situation in the .awk but instead you're kicked out.
According to manpage:
The getline command returns 0 on end of file and -1 on an
error. Upon an error, ERRNO contains a string describing
the problem.
which means that program shouldn't fail, only that return code and ERRNO
should be set properly.
BTW, the manpage is incomplete wrt getline, it should also mention that
getline return 1 on normal read - eg:
The getline command returns 1 on normal (successful) read, 0 on
end of file and -1 on an error. Upon an error, ERRNO contains a
string describing the problem.
thanks
--
paolo
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