Re: Do I redirect stdout to opened socket?

On 2005-12-29, thisrule@xxxxxxxxx <thisrule@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Then, write( 1, "message\n", 8 ) works good.
> The string, "message" displayed in the client program.
> But printf( "message\n" ) does not work.

It does work. But printf and friends are using buffered output. In
other words they store whatever they get in the buffer and send it only
when the buffer is full (kind of). There are different ways to control the
buffering behaviour on streams. In the simplest case you can call
fflush(stdout) to force writing of the data immidiately. Alternatevely
you can use setvbuf function to make your stdout stream unbuffered.
Actually this applies to stderr and any other stream (type FILE*).

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