From: "Matthew Smith" <matt AT the-good-stuff DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: files not closed after GPF
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 17:45:05 +0100
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>
> Is it a bug ?

I think you are doing about as well as can be expected, only losing
one line line that.
crashing with files open can actually wipe your whole file system if
you are exceptionally unlucky.

If your program was opening the file itself, it could adopt an
"open,append,close quickly" strategy but redirecting the output makes
your shell handle this.

You could try outputting a few line feeds after critical information
to flush the shell's buffer to disk.

Matt