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Attached is the Linux version of tail.c -- coreutils.3.2.1

My point in one sentence -unless you use special routines (aio) you cannot guarantee
that any stdio disk write routine will actually cause stuff to go to disk, fflush()
helps but does not cure this...

You want: each new line as it appears in the file, the full line, correct?

When a C program calls fwrite() or even write, the data is stored in the kernel, not the file. The device I/O happens...