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Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting

From	<tomas@tuxteam.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting
Date	2019-03-23 18:30 +0100
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On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 10:27:01AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 22 Mar 2019 at 17:45:50 (+0100), tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

> Reading the OP's problem, I wonder how you're meant to detect
> "any whiff of a problem" [...]

Torture tests.

> The main concern raised in the OP was flushing before termination,
> for which a signal is ideal. And for best performance, I'd forget
> tee and just look at the output file occasionally, with tail.

A signal handler is definitely an option, but it can be pretty tricky.
Especially if you are catching things like SEGV (you dare a write()
after that?)

Cheers
-- t

Thread

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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