At 3:16 AM -0600 11/21/00, Dennis Handly wrote:
>Barry Lake ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>: is to change all printf("whatever") calls to fprintf(stdout, "whatever").
>: This seems to force the output to be written immediately...
>
>Did you mean stderr?  Otherwise they should be the same.



You know, I usually do code things with fprintf(stderr,...).
However, when I was replying to the original post, I whipped out a quick
"Hello World" program to verify that what I was going to post would be
correct. In that program I guess I spaced and used fprintf(stdout,...),
which seemed to work, so that's what I posted. Is there really a functional
difference between stdout and stderr? (I know about ">" and "2>"
redirection in shell scripts, but this started as an MPE programming
problem, I think.) Isn't buffering handled the same way for stdout and
stderr?