Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: CLI behave like SH or PERL/RUBY/PYTHON?

[Kristian Koehntopp]

On Wednesday 23 October 2002 09:41, Edin Kadribasic wrote:
> OTOH, having implicit_flush turned on makes writing interactive command
> line programs easier. Some programs (like pear installer) might even depend
> on it.

The proper way around this, as I see it, is to flush at the end of line, and
before each read operation on an interactive tty. This would give you
the performance of implicit_flush off with the proper interactive behaviour.
I'd like to call this "implicit_flush = smart".

Kristian


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