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- From: Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn@BRL.ARPA>
-
- Some implementations may not have any definite upper limit
- (at least, nothing less than several thousand) for the number
- of open files supported per process. The minimum guaranteed
- number of open files available is useful (for example for
- merge sorting), but the maximum number may not be meaningful.
-
- I submitted a proposal to X3J11 that fflush((FILE*)NULL) would
- flush ALL output buffers, since there is no other good way to
- accomplish that. It seems that close(-1) might be a similar
- solution for POSIX. (Since nobody is supposed to be doing this
- currently, it is available for assigning new semantics to.)
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 11, Number 64
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