[Clas_offline] C function to force flushing of BOS buffer?

[Craig Bookwalter]

That sounds tantalizing! What header file is in? I grepped for it in the 
SVN include directory:

/group/clas/builds/32bit/STABLE/include

but nothing came up...

Gagik Gavalian wrote:
> Dear Craig,
>
> It is done by using the function:
>
> bosWrite(bosFileHandleOut,bcs_.iw,"0");
>
> The "0" passed as a list argument flushes the memory into the disk !
>
> Hope this is helpful
>
> Gagik
>
> On Sep 2, 2010, at 2:45 PM, Craig Bookwalter wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi offliners,
>>    Thanks again for the help with the GSIM issue--I have another 
>> question for everyone. Does anyone know offhand a C function call that 
>> will force BOS banks currently stored in memory to be written to the 
>> file? I've found (especially during this GSIM study) that it's pretty 
>> hard, if not impossible, to write out a BOS file with less than 15 
>> events, and it seems like it's just a buffer that isn't flushed before 
>> the program exits. I believe Dennis was having trouble with this when he 
>> was using part2gamp before, but I don't recall if he sent his troubles 
>> to clas_offline or just to the g12 list.
>>
>> Thanks again!!
>>
>> --cb
>>
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