FLUsHOUTPUT in a background task?

[masinter]

this poster from StackOVerflow had a question:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78645353/write-text-i-o-stream-to-file-with-interlisp-medley

The problem is these are buffered streams and there is no background task of writing out the bytes. So you won't see the lalala until you caall (FLUWHOUTPUT S) or close the stream.
(@lispm could you reply to the poster? I dont have 50 Overflow points or whatever)

Should there be, and when and where should it run? Is it a problem for process streams?
DSK and UNIX only? Not a network problem?

Originally posted by @masinter in #1405 (comment)

[nbriggs]

Why is it a problem if it is a buffered stream and doing exactly what you expect a buffered stream to do? Having a background task going around and arbitrarily flushing output seems like a pretty anti-social thing to do.

[lispm]

I've posted the answer...

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[Angular-Angel]

Forget background task, I can't get it to print to the file at all, even with calling (FLUSHOUTPUT S) manually. Closing the file doesn't do anything, either.

[nbriggs]

@Angular-Angel, I have no trouble writing files in Medley - I do it all the time. If I can replicate what you're doing I can diagnose what's going wrong for you.

[Angular-Angel]

I found a solution. Ended up using (DRIBBLE 'ouptut), it worked well enough for my purposes.