Question about (exit)

["Brian D. Carlstrom" <bdc@zurich.ai.mit.edu>]

Robert Morelli writes:
 > I defined a function
 > 
 > (define fail
 >   (lambda (msg)
 >     (display msg)
 >     (exit 0)))
 > 
 > with the intention that calling
 > (fail msg)
 > will result in the message msg being written to
 > standard out and the process then terminating.
 > However,  what happens is that the process simply
 > terminates without msg being written.  Can someone
 > explain this?

I assume this is because the stdout is not flushed before the process
exits...

-bri