Writes, Syscalls, and Buffering

[mnemnion]

@dee0xeed

wait… what has this to do with Zig?..
here we have redirections handled by a shell (bash in my case).
when a launched program exits, all open files are closed (fd 2 in this case)
and when a file is closed, OS should flush pending write ops, shouldn’t it?

I would even say “should”, yes, but they don’t, at least the POSIX-y ones don’t. I did think, for that reason, that you were referring to Zig adding this behavior, sorry about that.

@AndrewCodeDev

especially if you are dealing with files that have strings inside of them…

const str = "hello\nworld!"

That string would be counted as 2 lines if we’re going by newline alone.

I think there’s some sort of use-mention confusion happening here.