On Sunday 27 February 2005 06:28, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? 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. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
