Noted in sys-apps/portage-2.1.1_pre2-r1 and -r3991 SVN. xsplit has the following code: splits = xsplit_mem(mydat) if not splits: return and later on down: myfile.write(splits[1]) myfile.close() return This should be return false/true to be able to distinguish failure/success of the function.
Thanks, in svn r4006 it now returns False on failure and True on success.
This has been released in 2.1.1_pre3-r4.