reddit discussion on replacing Python in 0install

[deadalnix]

On Wednesday, 12 June 2013 at 16:34:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> It's quite an old standard feature albeit obscure, I found it 
> and forgot about it a couple of times already. Works 
> everywhere, see 
> http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdio/ferror/ and 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9yky46tz(v=vs.80).aspx
>
>> But yes, all open files should be flushed on termination. It's 
>> what C's
>> stdio does already.
>
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10344
>

How come that in a first place, we have a file descriptor that 
isn't working ?