Message-ID: <B0FEA00E82A7D1118BFB00A0CC990278213248@ARGON>
From: Michel de Ruiter <Michel AT smr DOT nl>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: "'DJGPP workers'" <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: fflush question
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 13:53:46 +0200 
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> > But if the file is read again (via another handle) the
> > operating system knows what to do: read from the system
> > buffers. No?
> DOS/Windows do this as well--mostly.  The problem you bumped into is a
> very subtle case:

Which is why nobody encountered it as a problem, I guess.

BTW, should fflush be corrected for this bug, as DJ suggested? The fsync
will be put in the Plotutils' configure.in anyway. Its maintainer is
very, almost too kind, incorporating everything I suggested.

Groente, Michel.