Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] make csi close stdin/stderr/stdout when exiting.

[Felix]

From: Christian Kellermann <address@hidden>
Subject: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] make csi close stdin/stderr/stdout when 
exiting.
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:12:07 +0200

> Hi,
> 
> the attached patch makes csi close its ports when interactively
> evaluating, i.e. running the REPL. This helps the new pastiche port to
> save its history in time and it should not hurt any other use
> cases. After all closing one's ports before exiting is just a bit more
> polite than relying on the OS process reaper...

Is this necessary? What if there is still output from lower levels
of the runtime system? (say by starting csi with "-:d")?


cheers,
felix