Github user tillrohrmann commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2629 No this case can also happen if you don't have an input for a really long time, e.g. a completely consumed Kafka topic to which no data is written anymore. In this case you would still like to output the pending elements asap without adding the latency of waiting for a new element to arrive.
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