From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-10-14T08:29:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Buffering problems

On 10/13/05, Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
> 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

No.  Why would the ordering make a difference?