On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 04:16:56PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Again, this is something that a non-stdio-based buffering library would > easily handle. You could just test the file descriptor _once_ at the > beginning, to see if it's a regular file or not. And then you could have > the error handling where it belongs (when the IO is actually done, and the > error actually happens) rather than in the callers using a bad interface > that sometimes loses 'errno'. Is there something obviously wrong with doing something like this? if ((fstat(fileno(stdout), &st) < 0) && !S_ISREG(st.st_mode)) setbuf(stdout, NULL); This would change stdout to use completely unbuffered I/O we're not sending the output to a file. - Ted - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
