If I understand this correctly, there's a difference between deleting a reference to 50 GB (like an inode), and actually writing 50 GB.
When you write to an output port, you are writing to a buffer in memory. This prevents the slow downs you've witnessed, because storage mediums are comparably slow. "Flushing" with (flush-output) or plumbers on port closure actually sends bytes outside of the process. I wouldn't try using the same port after deleting a file. If Racket and the operating system initially agreed on a file descriptor that is now invalid, then you'll need to address that by opening a new port. Note that I don't Racket's implementation details here. I'm recalling what I've seen happen across languages. On 12/19/21 11:50 AM, Jacob Jozef wrote: > Hi > > I start a thread printing a file. When the file will be very long (say 50 GB) > the thread takes too much time and I kill it when it takes more time than I > want to permit. Outside the thread I clean up. Closing the output-port before > deleting the file takes much time. But to my surprise I can delete the file > before closing the port, which hardly takes time. > > Nice. > > Is this intended behaviour? > > After deleting the file, the port remains open, but writing to it does > nothing. Correct? > > Thanks, Jos > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/EEC04679-E526-4215-B4DE-502B5B10567A%40hxcore.ol](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/EEC04679-E526-4215-B4DE-502B5B10567A%40hxcore.ol?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/076c95f8-1d49-4294-9df8-73b1b39b1f01%40sagegerard.com.
