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From: mcgrath@tully.Berkeley.EDU.berkeley.edu (Roland McGrath)
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Subject: Re: line buffering
Keywords: ANSI Draft line buffered stream definition
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Date: 21 May 88 07:14:01 GMT
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The wording is in fact what was really intended.
I had the same question a few months ago when implementing this part of
stdio and Dave Prosser, some flavor of chairperson or somesuch, assured
me that it was really intended.

Anyway, it does make some sense.  You generally want output to stdout
flushed before you read input from stdin, don't you?