Re: Very strange sim results

[Lloyd Wood <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Christof Brandauer wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Lloyd Wood wrote:
> 
> : I suspect Chris's problem is that he is opening the tracefile, but not
> : explicitly closing it, so stuff doesn't always get flushed out to it. 
> 
> Oh yes, you *were* right. I'm still quite suprised about how different
> the 2 graphs for the queuelength are (if you visualize them). One must
> be really careful to close all the tracefiles (i usually have several
> ones).


That 'close' man page quote you threw back at me was confusing.

> (The man page for close states: "Channels are automatically closed
> when an interpreter is destroyed and when the process exits.
> Channels are switched to blocking mode, to ensure that all output is
> correctly flushed before the process exits.")


Where does that come from?

thanks,

L.

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