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

[Craig Bookwalter]

Since I use c_bos_io, what I needed was this call at the end of my 
program, right before I closed the file:

  putBOS(&bcs_, 7, "0");

Many thanks to all!

Jixie Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
>   You will find "bosWrite" in package bosio.
>
> Jixie
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Craig Bookwalter <craigb at jlab.org 
> <mailto:craigb at jlab.org>> wrote:
>
>     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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 Department of Physics			JLab Office: (757) 269 5465
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