Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: higher priority to more in "XXXX |more"
Message-ID: <13263@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 28 Jun 90 16:11:24 GMT
References: <1777@necisa.ho.necisa.oz> <807@ehviea.ine.philips.nl> <4879@pegasus.ATT.COM>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <4879@pegasus.ATT.COM> mpl@pegasus.ATT.COM (Michael P. Lindner) writes:
-I've got a proposal that stdio flush output buffers if there is something in
-the buffer for longer than X, where X is some amount of time.  Thus, programs
-that are doing a lot of output get buffering, and line-at-a-time slow going
-programs get their data out into the real world reasonably quickly.  This is
-not hard to implement, either.

How weird.  Can you do this without planting a signal handler and setting
up an alarm?  I'd hate to see the standard library start using alarms.

This behavior also might be considered contrary to that specified in the
C standard.