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Writing to the hard disk, and checking for error to exit(1)?

(I've not done C prorgamming in such a long time, I have forgotten how
to do this.)

I'm writing a program, where it fopens a file with "a+", and I want to
be able to continue writing to this file, but I want the program to
exit(1) if the disk is full or some other write failure. I would like
to see a C code example. Thanks in advance!

Dec 13 '06
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On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:32:55 +0000, Richard Heathfield wrote:
>If your intent is to write a string up to but not including its terminating
null character, then you'll want to use strlen rather than sizeof.
Also, 'fclose' with checked return value would be nice for code that
'fopen's a file and tries to detect "if the disk is full or some other
write failure" (fflush with checked return value may be helpful, too).
Best regards,
Roland Pibinger
Dec 14 '06 #11

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