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[-] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

Don’t most terminals flush the buffer on newline anyway?

[-] ClemaX@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

It is the stream itself that is buffered, so the terminal does not handle the contents until the stream is flushed.

[-] vapeloki@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Maybe, but there is the internal buffer. Also, most I/O happens in files not consoles

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