From: utzoo!watmath!decvax!harpo!eagle!jerry Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: STDIO on TTYs: Discussion and Request for Fix Article-I.D.: eagle.415 Posted: Wed Jun 30 09:48:40 1982 Received: Thu Jul 1 00:06:47 1982 References: brl-bmd.235 watmath.2871 I agree that flushing of stdout and stderr should be tied to reading from stdin. And that stdio should contain a general mechanism to tie the flushing of one stream to reading from another. But this should be based on the LOGIC of the program, not on whether any of these is a tty or which is a tty. Output intended for the tty may be filtered (e.g. I very frequently set up "tee") before arriving there. If the output of program is going to a pipe, there is no way to tell what its ultimate destination is. Jerry Schwarz -- eagle!jerry -- BTL Murray Hill -- (201) 582-5926