I am trying to implement following bash line in c.
while true; do echo Hello; done > out.log
I can collect log in log file .
But logs are written only when executable finishes execution.
my test case which uses non exiting executable fails.
how do I write log file realtime ?
here is hello.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main(){
// while(1){
for(int i=0; i<10;i++){
printf("Hello World\n");
sleep(1);
}
return 0;
}
here is helloExec.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
int main(){
char *cmd[] = {"./hello", NULL};
int fd = -1;
if(fork() == 0){
fd=open("log.out", O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_APPEND, 0666);
dup2(fd,1);
execv(cmd[0],cmd);
}
return 0;
}
compiled with make hello
and make helloExec
When I use for loop I do see logs collected after 10 sec. Whereas If while is used then logs are not written to file.
using tail -f log.out
to follow log file.
Any inputs about this are welcome.
NOTE: unsuccessful trying to resolve this using pipe.
Piped output is buffered even aggressively than line-buffered terminal output, \n
is not enough to flush it.
Use fflush(stdout)
after printf()