On Sunday 27 February 2005 06:28, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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?
Good point. A quick test program shows that fwrite() doesn't support writing
zero bytes.
In that case we have a choice between having a change in the interface (such
as supporting the writing of "\n" for an empty setting), or just leaving such
operations as being impossible in shell scripts.
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