* Paul Eggert: > Florian Weimer wrote: >>> You can achieve that "actual close call" using >>> >>> error = close(dup(fileno(stdout))); >>> >>> so you don't actually need to "fclose" if you don't want to. >>> Any 'close' will do, it doesn't have to be the "last close". >> Hah, thanks for this suggestion! So something good came out of this >> thread after all. The big advantage of this approach is that this will >> preserve the descriptor and the stream, so that further diagnostics from >> the process are not suppressed. > > That trick won't work if the dup fails.
You can do an fsync in this case. Thanks, Florian
