[erlang-questions] file:open's delayed_write behavior does not correspond to docs.

[sand@REDACTED]

Thanks for checking this.  Is this bug something that can be fixed for
R11B-4?

Derek

Raimo Niskanen writes:
> I can confirm your reported behaviour, on Solaris 8 using 
> truss to see the system calls.
> 
> It seems to be a bug that nobody noticed. It appears that after
> the set time the delayed write is transferred to the file drivers
> todo queue, but the queue is not checked until next event,
> which is the next write.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 10:35:43PM -0800, sand@REDACTED wrote:
> > I have opened a port using
> > 
> >   file:open("/path/to/file", [append, raw, delayed_write])
> > 
> > and the process holding open the port receives messages, converts them
> > to IOdata, and sends them to the port using file:write/2.  According
> > to the Erlang documentation, the port should write its data when
> > 
> >   * 64kB of output data have accumulated, or
> >   * when the oldest datum in the buffer reaches 2 seconds old
> > 
> > This is thanks to the default 'delayed_write' parameters.
> > 
> > My program's output turns out to be consistenly one message behind the
> > messages being sent.  The first message "disappears" until I send the
> > second message, at which point it appears in the file.  When I send
> > the third message, the second one appears in the file, etc.  The last
> > message only appears when closing the file.  The 2 second limit
> > doesn't seem to have any effect.
> > 
> > Has anyone encountered this behavior before?  It's R11B-2 running on
> > Linux.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Derek
> > 
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