[PATCH] abort: Only flush file-based stdio streams before termination

Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
Thu Aug 17 13:46:00 GMT 2017


On 08/17/2017 09:35 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Historically, glibc flushes streams on abort, which is not
> required by POSIX.  This can trigger additional work
> (including callbacks through function pointers) in processes
> which are known to be in a bad state.  After this change,
> only streams which are backed by the standard descriptor-based
> implementation are flushed.

Does this mean open_memstream streams to NVM won't be flushed by
default?

As a user I might be convinced that my own custom streams need to
flushed by hand in an abort handler, but I might expect open_memstream
streams to be flushed.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.



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