[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: file_sink does not save all ?

[feldmaus]

Eric Blossom <eb <at> comsec.com> writes:

> 
> It does save all of the samples that it's seen.  GNU Radio does not
> process everything "instantaneously".  Since you're not causing the
> graph to stop synchronously, say using gr.head, or by providing input
> from a file, the graph is stopping at the first interruption point
> that it comes to after seeing stop().  There are many threads
> involved, and they are not all stopped atomically.
> 
> If you feed your graph from a file and let it run to the EOF, you
> would get the same number of samples in all three files.
> 
Thanks,

nice to know. My data comes from an Analysis Filterbank
which parts the main band into 3 bands. Then it will be saved to
a file.

Regards Markus