Re: Very strange sim results

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

On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Christof Brandauer wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Lloyd Wood wrote:
> 
> : 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?
> 
> it comes from
> 
> http://www.scriptics.com/man/tcl8.0/contents.htm

Ah.

I wouldn't have expected channel guarantees for tcl8.0 to also cover
tcl extensions such as the otcl interpreter, with full destruction and
tidying up of objects on close, handling of object output to channels
etc.

Might be awfully nice if it could, though.

L.

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