Re: wait_for_file ?? [who/what/where does fclose()?]

[Michael D Godfrey]

On 09/10/2010 11:58 AM, bpabbott wrote:

drawnow ("eps", "test.eps")

Where drawnow open and closes the file ... and for pipes pass the id?

pid = popen ("...", "w")

drawnow ("eps", pid)

pclose (pid)

This should be fine as long as drawnow() does fopen ... fclose in the first case and nothing
in the second.  That is not how it works now.  I think it would be best for drawnow either
to do the open and close or not.  Having it do the open ... close for files, but not for pipes
seems potentially confusing.  But, Shai should say, and do, what is best.

Just because I am risk adverse, I would put an fflush() ahead of the fclose wherever
it happens.  This seems to matter more when using NFS, and it has never been known
to cause harm.

Michael