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Fork, pipe and file operations

I have got pipe ( http://linux.die.net/man/2/pipe ) to enable communication between 2 processes in forked program. Everything goes right until I want to perform some file operations.

This code works:

Code:

pipe.writeBuffer(message.c_str(), message.length());

ofstream file;

file.open(name.c_str(), ios::app);

file << someStream;    // put some data to file (many times)

But this one not:

Code:

ofstream file;

file.open(name.c_str(), ios::app);

pipe.writeBuffer(message.c_str(), message.length());

file << someStream;    // put some data to file (many times)

In the second example there is no effect of instruction "file << someStream" - empty file.
What is wrong with that? Is it a problem with file descriptor? Pipe uses fd[0] - input and fd[1] - output.

You could try functions fopen+fwrite+fread+fclose, with checking/logging the return values after every function-call.

If, for example, file was not successfully opened, it is entirely possible that the subsequent attempt to write to it silently failed . . .

NevemTeve,
I prefer to use fstream.

sundialsvcs,
file was opened correctly, at least is_open() call gives true result.

This is the example which shows the problem:
http://pastebin.com/gJ4PbHvy