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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 18:40:35 +0300
From: Sergey Dmitrouk <sdmitrouk@...esssoftek.com>
To: "musl@...ts.openwall.com" <musl@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: Why stdout_write checks for terminal?
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 08:17:27AM -0700, Rich Felker wrote:
> Full buffering _must_ be disabled if the underlying file is an
> "interactive device" (terminal); this is a requirement of the
> standards. Somewhere in the distant past musl always put stdout in
> line-buffered mode, but users complained (rightfully) because programs
> writing binary data to stdout (e.g. things like djpeg) were 10-100x
> slower than with other libcs, so now whether it's line or full
> buffered depends on whether it's a terminal.
Thanks for the explanation (and to Josiah as well), that makes sense.
Related commit message is missing details and it wasn't really clear
why this change is needed.
Regards,
Sergey
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