[flashrom] [PATCH] Flush stdout after each message
Michael Karcher
flashrom at mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de
Thu Jun 24 00:34:33 CEST 2010
Am Dienstag, den 22.06.2010, 23:43 -0700 schrieb Ed Swierk:
> Currently messages like "Writing flash chip..." that don't end with a
> newline are buffered until the operation is complete, unless the
> particular write function generates status output in the meantime.
Correct. This should be fixed, but...
> Flushing stdout after each message ensures that the message appears
> immediately.
...if you want to flush immediately after each message, you better turn
off buffering of stdout alltogether using setvbuf in the startup code, I
think.
Regards,
Michael Karcher
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