torek@elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) (03/05/91)
In article <1991Mar05.080251.15424@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes: >...I think that this is just a hack >around a problem caused by lack of design forethought in stdio: >you shouldn't need a whole pty just to get line buffering! In my opinion, the design flaw is that line buffering exists. Indeed, any kind of buffering other than `full'---unbuffered output should just be a last-resort-buffer-size-equals-one trick, much the way I implemented it myself---is just a complication that leads to this sort of bad behaviour. But there is nothing I can do about that. . . . -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Lawrence Berkeley Lab EE div (+1 415 486 5427) Berkeley, CA Domain: torek@ee.lbl.gov