On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 11:14:50PM +0059, Jason McIntyre wrote: > i think the phrase "going off and computing" means use fflush before > your code goes elsewhere, to do other things. whatever it means, the > wording is kind of tragic, i agree. > > your diff seeks to tweak bad wording, whereas i prefer to kill it. i'll > commit the diff below in the morning (relatively speaking, of course) > unless my maibox gets jammed with outrage. > > jmc > > Index: stdio.3 > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libc/stdio/stdio.3,v > retrieving revision 1.30 > diff -u -r1.30 stdio.3 > --- stdio.3 25 Mar 2014 15:23:27 -0000 1.30 > +++ stdio.3 2 Jul 2014 22:11:10 -0000 > @@ -148,8 +148,7 @@ > or when a large amount of computation is done after printing > part of a line on an output terminal, it is necessary to > .Xr fflush 3 > -the standard output before going off and computing so that the output > -will appear. > +the standard output so that the output will appear. > Alternatively, these defaults may be modified via the > .Xr setvbuf 3 > function. >
Hi Jason, Thanks for fix and clarification. Regards, Edward.
