From: stuart yarus <syarus@...>
Date: 2006-06-06T23:21:45+09:00
Subject: Re: leaving files open

On 6/6/06, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> 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.

FWIW, kill -KILL and program crashes loses written but unsynced data.


>
> All files should be closed on exit, assuming exit!() wasn't called.
>
> James Edward Gray II
>
>