fork() and file descriptors with un-flushed output

[Daniel Colascione]

On 8/27/2012 11:26 PM, thoni56 wrote:
> Is this a known behaviour? Unavoidable in cygwin? (Obviously not, if I'm on
> the right track with my guesswork...) If it is a bug, will it be fixed?

This behavior isn't Cygwin-specific. In fact, it's longstanding Unix behavior.
(The buffering problem is one reason you should, generally speaking, use
_exit(2), not exit(3), in a forked child.) Calling fflush(NULL) before the fork
will flush all stdio buffers for you and eliminate the problem, assuming you're
single-threaded.

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