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Re: glibc calls more write() than necessary

On Sunday 21 January 2007 16:03, Matthieu Lemerre wrote:
> Maybe I wasn't clear enough... My concern is the following one: when a
> stream is line buffered, I think that the flush need to be done only
> at the LAST '\n', not at each one of them.  That way, you flush less,
> you syscall less, and the program run faster.

that is not how the standard works

line buffered means line buffered ... it doesnt mean buffer some lines but not 
others
-mike

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