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From: mherman@alias.UUCP (Michael Herman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: What does winopen(3G) do?
Keywords: winopen sgi edge background parent child wsh stdio respect
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Date: 12 Jun 90 08:35:03 GMT
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One thing winopen( ) doesn't do is respect stdio file
pointers/buffers.  It should insure that every buffer is flushed before
doing the fork.  This is a major nuisance to those who are writing
"general-purpose" libraries that expect to be called from SGI GL
programs.

Michael Herman
Director, New Workstation Group