On Feb 26, 2005, Russell Coker <russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}