Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote in a message to Philipp Thomas:

  > MS> ????? you mean the original code fprintfs to a closed files?? fix the
  > MS> source code.

  > just another example of unixish dirty file system hacks,
  > like doing unlink() on an open file :)

 JdBP>   Not even UNIX allows you to write to closed files.  (-:

It seems that at least one UNIX dialect does allow it.  :-)
 
-- Mike


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