“I recently ran into a problem where long-running program output was trapped in a C FILE buffer. The program had been running for two days straight printing its results, but the last few kilobytes of output were missing. It wouldn’t output these last bytes until the program completed its day-long (or worse!) cleanup operation and exited. This is easy to fix — and, honestly, the cleanup step was unnecessary anyway — but I didn’t want to start all over and wait two more days to recompute the result.
Here’s a minimal example of the situation. The first loop represents the long-running computation and the infinite loop represents a cleanup job that will never complete…”
http://nullprogram.com/blog/2015/09/15/
