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From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
To: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon@gmail.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
	Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>,
	bug-gnulib@gnu.org, NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Why does close_stdout close stdout and stderr?
Date: Tue, 07 May 2019 13:28:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5604719.PJ8jcio0DY@omega> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e7356957-654a-37a3-638c-826c131dc985@gmail.com>

Assaf Gordon wrote:
> 4.
> "fflush" instead of "fclose" seems to work OK, but I do not know
> if there are other side effects:
> 
>    $ ./aa stdout fflush > /dev/full && echo ok || echo error
>    aa: fflush failed: No space left on device
>    error

Except that it does not work OK on NFS, as explained by the comment
in close-stream.c (written in 2006):

                       Even calling fflush is not always sufficient,
   since some file systems (NFS and CODA) buffer written/flushed data
   until an actual close call.

Bruno



  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-07 11:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-29 19:45 Why does close_stdout close stdout and stderr? Florian Weimer
2019-04-29 19:49 ` Eric Blake
2019-04-29 20:26   ` Florian Weimer
2019-05-06 12:05     ` Florian Weimer
2019-05-06 14:56       ` Bernhard Voelker
2019-05-06 15:47         ` Florian Weimer
2019-05-06 19:14           ` Bernhard Voelker
2019-05-06 19:19             ` Florian Weimer
2019-05-09  6:20               ` Bernhard Voelker
2019-05-09  6:39                 ` Florian Weimer
2019-05-09  9:49                   ` Bernhard Voelker
2019-05-09 22:17                   ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-10  7:28                     ` Kamil Dudka
2019-05-10  7:31                       ` Florian Weimer
2019-05-13  1:09                       ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-13  7:00                         ` Florian Weimer
2019-05-25  1:41                           ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-25 10:58                             ` Bruno Haible
2019-05-27 11:56                             ` Florian Weimer
2019-05-25 11:24                           ` Bruno Haible
2019-05-25 19:23                             ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-27 12:00                             ` Florian Weimer
2019-05-27 21:13                               ` Bruno Haible
2019-05-06 18:53       ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-06 19:02         ` Jeff Layton
2019-05-06 22:32       ` Bruno Haible
2019-05-07  9:44         ` Assaf Gordon
2019-05-07  9:49           ` Assaf Gordon
2019-05-07 11:28           ` Bruno Haible [this message]
2019-05-08  0:43             ` NeilBrown
2019-05-08 11:00               ` Florian Weimer
2019-05-09  4:42                 ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-09  5:01                   ` Florian Weimer
2019-05-09  6:27                   ` NeilBrown

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