On Feb 4, 2004, at 10:23 AM, Rob Dixon wrote:
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Disabling output buffering in Perl should be seen as
a nicety that helps debugging, but not much else. Only
a hardware solution can guard against losing power at the wrong time.
Minor Nit, yes I know that the thread has
been about disk and/or files
Eternius wrote:
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> Wiggins D Anconia wrote:
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> >>Nilay Puri wrote:
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> >>if u use an OS like linux (which will not write things imediately to
> >>disc) this forces it to do so.
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> >
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> > That is misleading and not necessarily true. It tells Perl to unbuffer
> > the I/O but not t
then I guess, I didn't understand it myself
Wiggins D Anconia wrote:
Nilay Puri wrote:
if u use an OS like linux (which will not write things imediately to
disc) this forces it to do so.
That is misleading and not necessarily true. It tells Perl to unbuffer
the I/O but not the OS. The OS de
> Nilay Puri wrote:
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> if u use an OS like linux (which will not write things imediately to
> disc) this forces it to do so.
>
That is misleading and not necessarily true. It tells Perl to unbuffer
the I/O but not the OS. The OS decides what will and won't get written
to disc, based on k
.
See Fcntl, File::Handle, Io::Handle at cpan for more.
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Nilay Puri wrote:
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>> -Original Message-
>>From
Nilay Puri wrote:
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From: Nilay Puri, Noida
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 11:37 AM
To: Perl (E-mail)
Subject: FW: special vars
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From: Nilay Puri, Noida
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 11:32 AM
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On Feb 4, Nilay Puri, Noida said:
>> Can any one help me understand the usage of special variable $| ?
>>
>> I know the description of this var. If set to nonzero, forces a flush
>> after every write or print.
Most filehandles buffer their output until a newline is reached. For
example, try th
> -Original Message-
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> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 11:37 AM
> To: Perl (E-mail)
> Subject: FW: special vars
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> -Original Message-
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