Scott Lamb <[email protected]> writes: > I don't know exactly why the behavior differs based on stdin being a > tty or not. My best guess is that glibc might have some logic that, if > stdin is a tty, automatically flushes stdout any time the program > blocks on stdin.
When a new buffer is read for a line buffered or unbuffered stream, stdout is flushed. This is traditional Unix behaviour, but AFAIK not required by any standard. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, [email protected] GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
