Re: Make run in parallel mode with output redirected to a regular file can randomly drop output lines

[Frank Heckenbach]

Martin Dorey wrote:

> Frank wrote:
> 
> > the two-step procedure (remove and ">>").
> 
> Woah, *truncate* and ">>".  Removal wouldn't do the right thing for symlinks.

You're right, of course, thanks!

> > That said, I'm now going back to my own programs which redirect
> > stdout in forked child processes and add O_APPEND to O_TRUNC ...
> 
> Me too!

So this duscussion has had one positive effect for us already. :)