Re: [gawk-stable] awkcard bug: Bell Labs awk fflush() related

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi. Thanks for this. I have fixed the card and made a minor adjustment
in gawk.texi. This will show up in CVS soon.

It's not necessary to make the same change in gawk-devel; all the changes
since 3.1.6 will be folded into gawk-devel once I do a release from
gawk-stable (whenever that will be).

Thanks,

Arnold

> Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 08:38:37 +0200
> From: Steffen Schuler <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [gawk-stable] awkcard bug: Bell Labs awk fflush() related
>
> Hi Arnold,
>
> in awkcard.ps created from awkcard.in in the current CVS-version of=20
> gawk-stable there is the following documentation bug (search for=20
> fflush in the section OUTPUT CONTROL on sheet 6):
>
>      If no file, then flush standard output. If file is null, then
>      flush all open output files and pipes (not Bell Labs awk).
>
> This is wrong. As in the file FIXES of Bell Labs can be read:
>
>   Jan 1, 2002:
>         fflush() or fflush("") flushes all files and pipes.
>
> Probably the bug can also be found in gawk-devel. (I didn't looked=20
> there.)
>
> gawk.texi and gawk.1 seems to be clean w.r.t. this bug.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Steffen
>
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