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[Johannes Erdfelt <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2012, Dugger, Donald D <donald.d.dugger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Unless they've changed things (I've worked on so many versions of
> Linux/Unix I do get confused :) but `stdio' is supposed to check and,
> if the output is a file then it's buffered and, if it's a terminal,
> then it's unbuffered.

Hi Don!

I'm pretty sure this can vary from system to system, but generally stdio
is line buffered if connected to a terminal.

http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/stdio_buffering/

Either way, your point still stands :)

JE