Re: [leafnode-list] Can fetchnews un-buffer stdout?

[Matthias Andree <ma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lloyd Zusman <ljz@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Matthias Andree <ma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Why should a shell redirection switch from line to full buffering?
> 
> Because stdio is smart (or tries to be).  It automatically checks via
> the appropriate ioctl() calls (or perhaps simply via isatty(), which
> usually sits atop ioctl) what kind of device that stdout is going to.
> If it's going to a terminal, the output is line buffered.  If it's
> going to a file and perhaps other types of devices, the output is no
> longer line buffered, and we get the behavior which I mentioned above.

Wow. No wonder glibc is big, fat, bloated. Anyhow, there are functions
in leafnode which are called from (almost) every program, they could
take the setvbuf() calls. 

-- 
Matthias Andree

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