On 12 Jul 2002 cgd@broadcom.com wrote:

> One might try some (fairly arbitrary ground) like, for each stdout,
> stderr:
>
> 	* if the output methods are the normal ones, and
>
> 	* if there is data in the buffer waiting to be output,
>
> 	* then try something which won't itself be fatal but which
>           would possibly make the last output available, like
>           write()ing the buffered data.

I think that's reasonable, and quite probably safe in the face of threads
and signals.

> (Of course, the old behaviour would have to be provided by a versioned
> call "forever.")

abort() can't be versioned using our current technology.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
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