[LC++]IOStreams and forking.

[David]

Jack Lloyd wrote:
> I doubt any standard has been defined; ISO C++ doesn't mention threads, and
> the thread/IPC standards (POSIX, Unix98, etc) don't mention C++. Basically
> "it depends". And as you have found, relying on it is a bad idea. :(
> 
> There are a few other options that come to mind, which may or may not be
> useful:
>   Use threads instead of fork()
>   Use syslog()
>   Write a log daemon (or reuse one somebody else has written) and talk to
>     it over a Unix domain socket (preferably wrapped inside a function ala
>     syslog)
>   Keep the logging file open as a Unix file descriptor.
> 
> BTW, be careful about multiple processes writing to the file at once: they
> could easily overlap in their outputs, etc. Consider fcntl() locking, or a
> central log server, to solve that problem. HTH.
> 
> Regards,
>   Jack
> 
> On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, David wrote:
> 
> 

Thanks for the info.
After sending the email to the list, I found a core file.  Turned out each 
child was crashing just before the statment that wrote to the file. Doh!

Now that I have output, the next step will be making sure the output 
doesn't overlap (as you pointed out).


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