From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-06-06T23:12:32+09:00
Subject: Re: leaving files open

On Jun 6, 2006, at 8:53 AM, Mat Schaffer wrote:

> But I think the biggest danger you face is loosing some of the data  
> you wrote to the file.  It's possible that some data is in a buffer  
> and hasn't actually been written when the program exits.  Closing a  
> file writes the buffer, so not closing it and just exiting may  
> leave buffer data unwritten.

All files should be closed on exit, assuming exit!() wasn't called.

James Edward Gray II