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Subject: Re: [boost] [log] auto_flush not flushing?
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-06-14 05:05:07


On 06/14/2010 12:08 AM, Michael Caisse wrote:
> Andrey Semashev wrote:
>> On 06/12/2010 07:32 AM, Michael Caisse wrote:
>>>
>>> What happens is that the log file shows up after the program exits.
>>> Since I was hoping to tail the file for some debug ... that isn't very
>>> convenient.
>>>
>>> Ideas of what I have done wrong?
>>
>> The file is only created when the first log record is written to it.
>> Could it be the case that you don't log until the end of the
>> application run time or filters reject records? Also, is it possible
>> that the execution time is very short to tell for sure when the record
>> is written to the file?
>>
>> The auto-flush feature is quite straightforward, I can't see from the
>> code how it could do wrong.
>
> Hi Andrey -
>
> The following is a reduced example that still fails. The file is not
> created until the program is exiting.
>
> Thank you for the help.

It works as expected on my Ubuntu 9.10 ("starting..." is in the file
when waiting for input). I tried on trunk, but the related code from v1
is still the same. What library version do you use?


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