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[โ€“] NewPerspective@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What about processes that terminate before writing the whole thing? You can't protect against everything. Blame other processes all you want but the language spec allows for confusion.

[โ€“] AMDmi3@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You just check the exit code, no? The other process may fail while generating syntactically correct data too, regardless of format.