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).

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
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