| From: | Aaron Optimizer Digulla |
| Date: | 11 Sep 2000 at 09:16:46 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: [Q] gets and puts |
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 10:01:09AM -0700, Dave Thiede wrote:
> BTW, for such a short program the fflush() call shouldn't be necessary.
> With a normal exit, all buffers should be flushed and the streams closed.
This is a known bug in Elate; it doesn't flush the buffers correctly.
The same happens in tar cvzf... which creates a child which runs gzip.
When gzip exits, its output buffers are not flushed and therefore,
the final archive it corrupt.