On Feb 4, 2004, at 10:23 AM, Rob Dixon wrote: [..]
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 filesystem I/O - but the need to disable output buffering becomes very important when one is doing client-server code over a socket and/or pipe.
Nothing like having one side waiting for the otherside to do something - but the message did not get sent because it is sitting in a buffer waiting to be flushed...
ciao drieux
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