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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 00:22:32 +0100
From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Enforcing expected ordering of operations on stdout,
 stdin, and stderr

* Max Ruttenberg <mruttenberg@...technology.com> [2016-02-10 18:08:47 -0500]:
> Consider this program:
> 
> int main()
> {
>    char buff[2];
>    puts("enter a character");
>    buff[0] = getchar();
>    buff[1] = '\0';
>    puts(buff);
>    return 0;
> }
> 
> If I compile that on linux-amd64, with or without musl, I will see "enter a
> character" printed to my console and then be prompted for a character, as
> opposed to the other way around. I don't know if this is formally
> guaranteed by the C standard, but somehow that order seems to be
> maintained.
> 

that is line buffering of stdout on interactive terminals

if you pipe it to cat then there will be no line buffering.

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