Stdio buffering question

Larry McVoy lm at arizona.edu
Fri Jun 10 17:13:35 AEST 1988


In article <8063 at brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn at 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 at arizona.edu or ...!{uwvax,sun}!arizona.edu!lm



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