os.fork() different in cgi-script?

Andreas Kuntzagk andreas.kuntzagk at mdc-berlin.de
Wed Jul 2 11:11:39 EDT 2003


On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 09:50:03 +0000, Michael Coleman wrote:

> Probably because stdout is being buffered here.  The pid got written in
> the buffer (but not yet actually printed), then the process was forked,
> then the buffer got flushed (written out) by each child.
> 
> One solution would be to make sure everything is flushed before you
> fork.

Thanx, that's it. Is it possible/advisable to make stdout unbuffered?

Andreas




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