Ftruncate

chrism01 · 04-13-2006, 02:58 AM

Don't use an intermediate buffer if the data's that important, use a write-through technique ie unbuffered writes to disk.

Deepak Inbasekaran · 04-13-2006, 03:51 AM

oh so i jus keep writing the files , thing is i have 5*200kb files and i keep creating new ones after 5 and deleting the old file, think this is the optimal soln.
and one more thing

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i keep writing to the file and will the user be able to c the file while its being written ? or should i open and close the file everytime i write ?