Re: controlling stdio buffering

[Pádraig Brady]

Andreas Schwab wrote:

>Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> writes:
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>>But glibc does not do this and hence should report non 0 to say it's not
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>No.  The standard does not allow that.
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OK one can read it many ways :)
I guess setvbuf(....,size); is meant to be a hint so.

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>>I'm also confused about the default buffer sizes.
>>On my libc6-2.3.5-1ubuntu1 stdin buffer defaults to 4096, stdout to 1024
>>and BUFSIZ is 8192 ?
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>Depends on the page size and the block size.
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Thanks for all the info.
I notice that address@hidden is mostly SPAM.
Is there a better place for glibc discussions?

cheers,
Pádraig.