Derek Robert Price writes: > > Okay... I had just made the assumption that all the descriptors would > need to be flushed before close if one had, but I see what you are > getting at now. The stdout stream had been used and has its own buffer > so I needed to flush the stdout buf, and similarly the stderr buf, but > not the descriptors.
Just to reinforce the concept one more time (at the risk of beating a dead horse), descriptors don't have buffers and thus don't need to be flushed; *streams* have buffers and need to be flushed; closing a stream also flushes it. It's impolite at best to muck about with a stream's descriptor without at least asking its permission first. And it's highly impolite to take a descriptor away (by closing it) from a stream that's still using it. -Larry Jones This game lends itself to certain abuses. -- Calvin _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
