On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 07:48:34PM +0100, Ben Harris wrote:
> On 12 Jul 2002 cgd@broadcom.com wrote:
> 
> > At Fri, 12 Jul 2002 11:55:32 +0000 (UTC), "Ben Harris" wrote:
> > > This is likely to change such that abort():
> > >  + May be called without restriction from a signal handler, and
> > >  - Need not fclose() open stdio streams.
> > >
> > > Would this change actually inconvenience anyone in the real world?  Is
> > > that inconvenience worth it?
> >
> > Would this result in needing to explicitly flush said streams before
> > calling abort(), if they used buffering?
> 
> Yes (assuming the application still cares about the buffered data).

Except that IIRC you can't call fflush() from a signal handler?


	David

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