On Thu, 28 May 1998, Jim Zelenka wrote:
| I think the question was not so much "What is your application doing?"
| as "Please give as an example a couple lines of perl code which
| demonstrates the problem, as well as the invocation of echo which does
| not cause the problem."
|
| AFS does not write changes back from the client cache to the fileserver
| until the file is closed. Does a close operation in your perl script map
| directly to a close() operation on the file descriptor?
I think so:
This from perlio.c in perl5.004_04:
int
PerlIO_close(f)
PerlIO *f;
{
return fclose(f);
}
It looks like PerlIO_close is used as the generic close() call
throughout. Given the lack of comments in the published source its
difficult to see at a quick glance if there is optimization done, but I
don't think so.
close() on an open fd in Perl should just map to an fclose().
Running truss/trace on the program is the best way to see what its
doing.
-bws
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