[Openmcl-devel] timely output from an external-process-output-stream

[Diedrich Wolter]

Hi,

the 'delay' occurs most likely since the output stream is not flushed.  
Just add the line fflush(stdout) to your C-program and your done. To  
the best of my knowledge, flushing behavior solely depends on the  
output device you write to and there's no programmatic way to change  
this (terminal devices tend to flush after \n, pipes generally don't).

> #include <stdio.h>
> int main () {
>  int i;
>  for (i=0; i<5; i++) {
>    printf("line %i\n", i);
---> fflush(stdout); <---

>    sleep(1);
>  }
>  return 0;
> }


Best,
   Diedrich

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Diedrich Wolter
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