> Use strace to find out what is going on. shows what I would expect > Does it work if you do write(1, "foo bar\n", 8) instead of printf? YES it does! So why does that work and not printf? owen Quoting Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Use strace to find out what is going on. > > Does it work if you do write(1, "foo bar\n", 8) instead of printf? > -- > vda >