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From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: cannot write to a file in Linux despite +rw permissions
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:36:00 +0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:44:03 -0800, Ada novice wrote:

> I have tracked the problem. It is working fine now. On Windows while GPS
> is running, I can terminate the application with the cross X located in
> GPS at the bottom right. The text file stops being written and if I open
> the text file, then I can see the values wriiten up till when I
> terminate the program.
> 
> On my Linux, if I press the terminate button in GPS while the program is
> still running and the file is being written, something happens so that
> the text file does not keep the values wriiten so far. This is why I was
> getting a blank text file.

The file is probably only flushed on exit or if you programmed a specific 
flush operation (or Close). If you were terminating the program 
abnormally (e.g. in a debugger), that may not have been happening. I was 
simply running from the command line and letting it exit...

> Problem solved!

I'm glad!

- Brian