🚀 go-pugleaf

On 01 Apr 1996 07:16:38 GMT in article <ERIC.96Apr1011638@cse.unl.edu>
    Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@cse.unl.edu> (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

>In article <4jhmg0$50n@solutions.solon.com> seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach) writes:

>   In article <828105458snz@wbriscoe.demon.co.uk>,
>   walter briscoe  <walter@wbriscoe.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>   >> How can I close all files that are opened ?

>I'm not absolutely positive it's in the standard, but I do believe
>either you find each on and close it. OR call exit. OR return from
>main.

>can someone confirm the second two?

The original poster's question did not indicate that the code that opened the
files was written in C.  Since it is concerned with operating a machine-specific
hardware device, it could well be written in assembly language, or some other
language, with a C-usable API.  If that is the case, the C run-time system would
know nothing about the files, so none of the mechanisms would be guaranteed to
work.  In most environments terminating the program (i.e. calling exit() or
returning from main()) will work because the OS takes care of it, but the C
standard guarantees nothing in such a situation.

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Peter Curran                               pcurran@inforamp.net