On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Jason McIntyre <[email protected]> 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. > ... > @@ -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. > "...will appear without delay"? "...will appear immediately instead of at the next automatic flush"? Philip
