Re: CVS commit: src/tests/kernel

[Julio Merino <julio%meroh.net@localhost>]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger
<joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:40:22AM -0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
>> Most of the printf's were already there before this round of
>> updates, and there's enough differentiation in them to figure out
>> which process is responsible.  In any case, the printf's aren't
>> critical to the test (until you need to debug it!).
>
> I am talking about the *new* printf in the child process.
> That should just be a plain write to STDERR_FILENO, it doesn't even have
> to include any more error details.

This is pure curiosity: isn't a fflush(stderr) right before the fork()
enough to make printf() safe in the child? If not, why not?

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Julio Merino / @jmmv