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From: lm@arizona.edu (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Stdio buffering question
Message-ID: <5825@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 10 Jun 88 07:13:35 GMT
References: <16124@brl-adm.ARPA> <8063@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: lm@megaron.arizona.edu (Larry McVoy)
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson
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In article <8063@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>stderr is supposed to start out unbuffered, ALWAYS.  It doesn't,
>though, on SunOS.  

WHAT?!?!?!?!  Why the hell not?  Whose bright idea was that?  And why don't 
they unfix it?
-- 
Larry McVoy	lm@arizona.edu or ...!{uwvax,sun}!arizona.edu!lm