Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment:

> I don't quite see the point in having the streams buffered in one
> level and unbuffered in another, but I guess there's a reason.

The reason is simply that it wasn't implemented. Unbuffered I/O isn't
useful very often.

> Anyway, how can I make those streams entirely unbuffered? This is for
> an interactive shell called DreamPie (dreampie.sourceforge.net), and I
> want to resemble the behavior of the regular shell as close as
> possible, and it's completely unbuffered.

You can just call flush() after each write to stdout or stderr.

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