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From: gp@picuxa.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello X1190)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Stdio buffering question
Message-ID: <594@picuxa.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jun 88 13:04:31 GMT
References: <16124@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: gp@picuxa.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello X1190)
Organization: AT&T/EDS Product Integration Center
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In article <16124@brl-adm.ARPA> ultra!wayne@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Wayne Hathaway) writes:
>I hate to bother Wizards with what is probably a very simple question,
>but it stumps me.  I have this very simple program that periodically
>does an fprintf(stderr,...) to indicate progress. 
>
>      Wayne Hathaway                  ultra!wayne@Ames.ARPA


You can turn buffering off for stderr (or any stream) with setbuf().  The
syntax for stderr is setbuf(stderr, (char *) NULL). (where NULL is 0).





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