Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 07:41:24 -0500 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: xterm and status-line Message-ID: <199509131241.HAA15336@bonkers.taronga.com> References: <199509122223.QAA11426@hemi.com> <199509122307.QAA03742@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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In article <199509122307.QAA03742@phaeton.artisoft.com>,
Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
>That means no more apps that do 'puts("\033[2J");" to clear the screen,
>etc. (use of standard I/O could break the writes up such that an
>interleaved I/O from another application was not atomic).
In the old days before line-buffered stdio everyone used to do all their
own fflushes at appropriate places so this just worked. You just had to
guarantee write-ordering and everything worked.
But now everyone's lazy and forgets to fflush.
They even leave the sseat up!
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