Re: [dev] [surf] [pull request] Close stdout after printing XID

From: Truls Becken <truls.becken_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:10:15 +0100

On 2012-02-19, at 13:47, Abby Cedar wrote:

>> Am I missing something? Why not just use flose(stdout)?
>
> Using only fclose would result in Bad file descriptor errors on future
> attempts to write to stdout. freopen is cleaner.

And so it becomes a philosophical question. When you close a file descriptor,
it's because you're not going to use it any less. If the vibe-coder forgets
and writes to stdout anyway, is it better to have the program exit with an
error, or to hide the problem so that nobody discovers the bug?

-Truls
Received on Mon Feb 20 2012 - 09:10:15 CET