Re: is the flush-on-close-after-truncate still needed?

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>]

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> DS wrote:
>> Hmm, but file overwrite in perl/php is slow, very slow.
> 
> If you have control over your perl/php, perhaps you can change it to do
> unlink/create/write instead of truncate/write?

Or even:

--- test.perl.orig        2008-06-26 16:22:48.163869293 -0500
+++ test.perl   2008-06-26 16:23:25.426869060 -0500
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 $time=time();
 for ($i=1;$i<100;$i++)
 {
-open (SUBOR,">$i.txt");
+open (SUBOR,"+<$i.txt");
 print SUBOR "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa\n";
 close (SUBOR);
 print "WRITE $i. FILE\n";

which gives you RW access, but does not do the truncate.

Or use sysopen.  Or ...

-Eric