From: ak@muc.de
Subject: Re: Buffered I/O with GNAT on Linux
Date: 1998/06/14
Date: 1998-06-14T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3pvgcukhj.fsf@fred.muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.897825854@merv
dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> Markus comments on the buffering in GNAT. This is totally under control
> of the user, as documented in the GNAT manual. THe default for a non-regular
> file is buffering off, which is what most people want as a default!
This looks like a lousy default. How about doing a isatty(1)[1] first like
C stdio does? If it is a terminal turn buffering off (or turn it into
line buffering), when it is no terminal turn it on.
This would make writing unix-style filters in GNAT more efficient.
-Andi
[1] Actually glibc 2.0 under Linux does fstat(1, ..) and checks st_rdev,
but that should be equivalent.
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1998-06-14 0:00 Buffered I/O with GNAT on Linux Markus Kuhn
1998-06-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-06-14 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-06-15 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1998-06-15 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1998-06-14 0:00 ` ak [this message]
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