On Feb 26, 2005, Russell Coker <russell(a)coker.com.au> wrote:
Actually I am not asking for a feature to be added, but for a feature
to be
removed. There is special-case code in bash if(size >0) write() and I am
merely suggesting that the if statement be removed.
Have you considered that it might just be writing to a FILE*, and that
it's the stdio subsystem that's deciding it doesn't need to write
anything at close() time because nothing was actually written?
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