If you have a reason to leave it open, you can always set autoflush on the file.
open FO, ">file_out"; my $was = select FO; local $| = 1; select $was; print FO "a"; print FO "b"; etc. 2008/5/21 John ORourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Well thanks! Under regular CGI, every time your browser requests a page, > Apache has to find your script, load Perl, compile your script and any > modules you use, run it, and exit Perl. Under mod_perl, all the loading and > compiling is done when Apache starts, not on every request - it's doing far > less work. There's a lot of good info on http://perl.apache.org/ but I know > what it's like when you're too busy debugging to RTFM :) > > > > Yeah, I have read a lot of those things that you wrote many times in > peal.apache.org but I just don't know what is the specific relation to > why it never write the file completely ! > > > It's just how operating systems work - to speed things up, when you write to > the file you're actually writing to a buffer in memory. When the buffer > gets full (usually a few kB), the operating system will write it all out to > the disk. If you close the file, it will also write it all out the disk. > It's simply good practice to tidy up before you quit your program - > previously you were relying on perl to do this for you, because it's good > like that. > > cheers > John > > @ list, ! $| ;) > -- > > -- Dodger
