reddit discussion on replacing Python in 0install

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Wed Jun 12 08:59:49 PDT 2013


On 6/12/2013 5:30 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 6/11/13 11:42 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> I think you meant "just flush once after using the FILE * for the
>>> first time"
>>
>> I think it's a bad idea, it'll muck up the buffering (i.e. make it slower).
>>
>> The fix is when main() returns to do the flush there.
>
> I agree. One question is, should we flush all buffers upon termination?
> fflush(null) would do so.
> http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Flushing-Buffers.html

I haven't heard about the fflush(null) thing. That may be gnu-specific. I don't 
think that works on Windows.

But yes, all open files should be flushed on termination. It's what C's stdio 
does already.



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