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Re: How to automatically flush stdout when a read from stdin occurs.

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On 9/2/2011 5:20 AM, tm wrote:
> The standard behaviour of stdin and stdout is (when a program is
> started from a shell window):
>
>    Whenever I read from stdin a fflush(stdout) is automatically done,
>    before data is read from stdin. This allows nice interactive
>    behaviour.
>
> But when I connect to the same program via two pipes no such
> flushing occurs.
>
[...]

     Have you considered using a pty instead of a pair of pipes?

-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid

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How to automatically flush stdout when a read from stdin occurs. tm <thomas.mertes@gmx.at> - 2011-09-02 02:20 -0700
  Re: How to automatically flush stdout when a read from stdin occurs. Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-09-02 13:50 +0100
    Re: How to automatically flush stdout when a read from stdin occurs. tm <thomas.mertes@gmx.at> - 2011-09-03 02:10 -0700
      Re: How to automatically flush stdout when a read from stdin occurs. Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-09-03 13:05 +0100
  Re: How to automatically flush stdout when a read from stdin occurs. Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-09-02 20:43 -0400
  Re: How to automatically flush stdout when a read from stdin occurs. gordonb.j3p91@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2011-09-02 23:56 -0500
    Re: How to automatically flush stdout when a read from stdin occurs. Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-09-03 09:08 +0100

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