On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Walter Bright <newshound2@digitalmars.com> wrote:

On 6/23/2011 11:48 AM, Jimmy Cao wrote:

But that's not possible (to set it to line-buffering) on Windows, right?

Sure it is, using the usual C functions. This is not a Windows thing, it's a C runtime library thing.

How do you make it have line-buffering?

It's not possible to set line-buffering in Windows using setvbuf, it seems:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/86cebhfs(v=vs.71).aspx

_IOFBF and _IOLBF are the same.

I think this is the cause of the strange flushing inconsistencies with stdio.d from my earlier example on Windows.