[OT][Sorry][More info]Kernel 2.2.x bug. Standard output not flushed

Juan Piernas =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=E1novas?= (piernas@ditec.um.es)
Tue, 08 Jun 1999 12:22:43 +0200


Hi all!

I said:

>This is not good, isn't it?. Well, I have a program that
>creates one o more process. Before fork, the father
>process write some messages to standard output and then it
>creates some sons. The problem is sons inherit
>father's non flushed standard output, so father's messages
>appear two o more times. If I flush standard output before
>fork(), all is fine -- that is, father's messages appear
>once.
>
>Sorry, but I haven't got enough kernel hacker skills to fix
>it.
Sorry. I thought that this was bad because the above problem arose when
I redirected standard output to a file. When standard output went to
tty, there wasn't any problem.

Sorry again. Best regards.

-- 
Prof. Juan Piernas Cánovas
Departamento de Ingeniería y Tecnología de Computadores
Facultad de Informática. Universidad de Murcia
Campus de Espinardo - 30080 Murcia (SPAIN)
Tel.: +34-68-364633    Fax: +34-68-364151
email: piernas@ditec.um.es

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