On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 07:33:00PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote: > From: =?UTF-8?q?=EB=A7=88=EB=88=84=EC=97=98?= <nalla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > For performance reasons `stdout` is buffered by default. That leads to > problems if after printing to `stdout` a read on `stdin` is performed. This first paragraph left me scratching my head. It's only a problem for interactive uses, right? Would: This can lead to problems for interactive commands which write a prompt to `stdout` and then read user input on `stdin`. If the prompt is left in the buffer, the user will not realize the program is waiting for their input. make sense? > For that reason interactive commands like `git clean -i` do not function > properly anymore if the `stdout` is not flushed by `fflush(stdout)` before > trying to read from `stdin`. I'm not sure I understand this "anymore". Did the buffering change at some point, introducing a regression? > So let's precede all reads on `stdin` in `git clean -i` by flushing > `stdout`. This (and the patch) make sense to me. It might be worth factoring out a "read input from user" function and putting the flush there, but with only three affected call sites, I'm OK with it either way. > This is yet another patch that was funneled through a Git for Windows > PR. It has served us well for almost five years now, and it is beyond > time that it find its final home in core Git. Agreed. I guess it didn't affect people on other platforms much because stdout to a terminal is generally line-buffered on POSIX systems. But it's better not to rely on that, plus it could create confusion if somebody tried to manipulate the interactive operation through a pipe (e.g., driving it from a GUI or something). -Peff
