> -------Original Message-------
> From: srinivasa kartheek
>
> My question at the end of the meeting was why the counter is not getting
> printed every five seconds even if we didn't send any signal.
> It turns out the reason is because the console stdout is buffered and
> if I flush explicitly the behaviour is as I expected.
>
>
> for (int i = 0; ; i++) {
>
> printf ("%d ", i);
>
> fflush(stdout);
>
> sleep(duration);
> }
> return 0;
> }
>
This is an artifact of how 'stream' library functions relate to actual i/o.
Please see
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19365655/disable-buffering-for-stdin-and-stdout-using-setvbuf
warm regards
Saifi.
