[comp.lang.c] stdio buffer flushing

karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) (08/19/88)

In article <2458@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Even better would be to adopt the Berkeley stdio convention, and have
>filbuf on an interactive stream do a flush on all interactive output
>streams. That way you get the correct result when you print a prompt,
>and you don't have an extra check on every character output.

ANSI has blessed this convention.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint