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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: cal(1) -- really exit(3)
Message-ID: <2352@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Thu, 2-Jul-87 00:26:53 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  2 00:26:53 1987
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zemon@felix.UUCP (Art Zemon) wrote:
> Andy Tanenbaum posted source code for cal(1) a few weeks
> ago, adding that the posted program did not work.  The only
> thing required to make it work is to add the line
>     _cleanup();
> before every call to exit().

Wouldn't it be easier to replace the supplied exit() with one
that worked, e.g. that implemented onexit(), so stdio could get
its buffers flushed without rewriting every program?
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