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- /2020/11/cfitsio-checkpoint-write
categories:
- astrophysics
date: '2020-11-30'
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title: CFITSIO file writing with checkpointing

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I wrote a prototype implementation of writing FITS files in C
checkpointing using the FITS flush function so that if the code
segfaults, the file is not corrupted, see:

* <https://github.com/zonca/cfitsio_checkpoint_write>