From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-10-14T08:24:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Buffering problems

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Joe Van Dyk wrote:

> I'm trying to redirect stdout and stderr of a program to a log file.
>
> So, I'm doing something like:
>
> $stdout.sync = true
> $stderr.sync = true
> $stdout.reopen File.open(some_log_file, "w")
> $stderr.reopen File.open(some_log_file, "w")
>
> exec 'program'
>
> Standard out and error are being redirected to the log file, but they
> are being buffered.
>
> Any ideas on why that might be?

did you mean

   $stdout.reopen File.open(some_log_file, "w")
   $stderr.reopen File.open(some_log_file, "w")
   $stdout.sync = true
   $stderr.sync = true

?

-a
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