TCL weakness: file buffers not flushed on "exit"

[Dieter Maurer]

TCL seems not to flush its file buffers on "exit"; explicite "close"
operations are required to ensure that the output material is indeed written to
files.

Dieter

[Sandeep V. Tamhankar]

I just checked it out for myself. TCL 7.4 in SunOS 4.1.4 and Solaris 2.5
handles flushing properly upon exit. TCL 7.5 on SunOS 4.1.4 has the bug.
I don't know how TCL 7.5 in Solaris 2.5 will react, but I'd bet it won't
work properly either.

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Sandeep V. Tamhankar
Analysis Technician
Signaling Capabilities Analysis

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[Jacob Levy]

Please post (or email me) a small example of the problem. I'd like
to fix this ASAP.

--JYL

In article <4ohi6b$g...@athos.cc.bellcore.com>, stam...@notes.cc.bellcore.com
says...

[Laurent Demailly]

In article <4oho7c$i...@nntp1.best.com>, Jacob Levy <j...@tcl-tk.com> wrote:
>Please post (or email me) a small example of the problem. I'd like
>to fix this ASAP.

I imagined it was maybe a complex called from C problem,.... but the
first try I did hit the bug : (Solaris and Hpux) :
> tclsh7.5
% open bug.out w
file3
% puts file3 "la li la"
% exit
> ll bug.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 dl users 0 May 29 18:36 bug.out

Good fixing...
regards
dl
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