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- From: hlu@poly2.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: stderr buffering
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.203538.819@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 20:35:38 GMT
- Article-I.D.: serval.1992Sep7.203538.819
- References: <Bu2sr4.Brv@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Sender: hlu@poly2 (H.J. Lu)
- Organization: Washington State University
- Lines: 27
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- In article <Bu2sr4.Brv@acsu.buffalo.edu>, beers@acsu.buffalo.edu (Andrew Beers) writes:
- |>
- |> I just got the sc package from tsx-11. I press '?' for help, and the help
- |> screen does not appear. After a few more keypresses, the help screen appears
- |> and then quickly disappears.
- |>
- |> I have also noticed that when I press <ESC> to exit edit mode in vi, it can
- |> take several seconds before the cursor will move back one space.
- |>
- |> I compiled the unit conversion program units, and noted that fprintf's not
- |> ending with a carriage return were not immediately sent to the screen. All of
- |> the fprintf's printed to stderr.
- |>
- |> It is my understanding that stderr should not be buffered at all. These three
- |> cases lead me to believe that it is being buffered under Linux.
- |>
- |> System: 386sx/25, 4Meg, 0.96pl2 (have noticed it with earlier kernels, also).
- |>
- |> Any ideas on this problem?
- |>
- |> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- |> Andrew C. Beers, N2LUH beers@cs.buffalo.edu
- |> SUNY Buffalo, Computer Science {rutgers,uunet}!cs.buffalo.edu!beers
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- That is a bug. I hope it will be fixed soon.
-
- H.J.
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