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 decides what will and won't get written to disc, based on kernel settings, harddrive settings, etc. Don't confuse the two...
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