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Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting

From "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting
Date 2019-03-21 17:40 +0100
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Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> writes:
> Have you tried the Command Line:   "sync"?

	Excellent question and I did, in fact, try that command
just before killing the running process.

	It had no effect.

<tomas@tuxteam.de> also writes:
> That won't help in the OP's case, I think: sync is about writing out
> the operating system's buffers to the file system. In the OP's case
> it's about the process's I/O buffers which haven't yet gone to the
> operating system.

	Thanks to both of you.  I hadn't thought of that but that
probably explains why nothing happened other than the command
"sync" successfully ran.

	I wrote the application that is creating this output in
perl and there may be a unique solution there that solves this specific
problem.  That is not as good as a general course of action which
works in all cases of output redirection but it beats nothing.
	A suggestion on a posting in stackoverflow was that one
could open the file for appending, append your new output and
then close it.

	I'll give that a try which should solve this one case.
Apparently others have dealt with how to shake the most recent
data out of buffers and commit it to disk and it is highly
dependant on the operating system as to when the write actually
goes to disk.

	Again many thanks.

Martin McCormick

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Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-03-21 15:10 +0100
  Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2019-03-21 15:40 +0100
    Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-03-21 16:20 +0100
      Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-03-21 19:10 +0100
        Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-03-21 19:20 +0100
        Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting Luís Gomes <luismsgomes@gmail.com> - 2019-03-21 19:30 +0100
    Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-03-21 17:40 +0100
      Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-03-21 17:50 +0100
        Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-03-21 18:30 +0100
      Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-03-21 19:40 +0100
        Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-03-22 02:00 +0100
          Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-03-22 06:20 +0100
          Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2019-03-22 17:40 +0100
          Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-03-22 17:50 +0100
            Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-03-23 16:30 +0100
              Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-03-23 18:30 +0100
                Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-03-24 17:20 +0100
                Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-03-24 19:30 +0100
                Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-03-24 20:00 +0100
                Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-03-24 21:40 +0100
                Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-03-25 03:00 +0100
                Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-03-25 07:20 +0100
                Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-03-25 10:50 +0100
                Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-03-26 17:50 +0100
                Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-03-26 18:00 +0100
                Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-03-26 18:40 +0100
                Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-03-26 19:00 +0100
                Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-03-27 16:00 +0100
                Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-03-27 16:20 +0100
  Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2019-03-21 19:50 +0100
    Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-03-23 22:40 +0100

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