Are filehandles flushed on a die() ?

BazB has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greetings fellow Monks.

A quick question: are filehandles flushed correctly when perl exits following a die(), croak() or any other exception?

I'm concerned that any log messages sitting in a buffer would be lost.

Cheers.

BazB

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Re: Are filehandles flushed on a die() ? by broquaint (Abbot) on Jun 30, 2003 at 13:06 UTC
Indeed they are. Because `die` is triggered from within `perl` it is dealt with nicely and all the appropriate things are performed upon shutdown as it would if `exit` had been called (more or less). HTH `_________ broquaint`	[reply]

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