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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: line buffering in stdio (4.2BSD; _flsbuf)
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Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 03:02:03 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 29 03:02:03 1985
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4.3 has a much larger and grottier putc macro that avoids calling _flsbuf
when an output file is unbuffered.  However, I still favor using setbuf
(not setlinebuf) and calling fflush whenever appropriate.

By the way, in 4.3 stderr is also line buffered.
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