Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:02:03 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: stderr outputs veerrrryyy slowly Message-ID: <20030622200203.GA32366@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3EF099C8.8FDEC855@dessent.net> <3EF09ED6.F4943C46@dessent.net> <3EF0B792.40204@cygwin.com> <3EF0BFA2.99CCC92A@dessent.net> <3EF26B27.1020203@cygwin.com> <20030620021155.GA19483@redhat.com> <3EF553B3.68EAF8FA@dessent.net> <20030622153512.GB28328@redhat.com> <3EF60947.AD6DB15A@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EF60947.AD6DB15A@dessent.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 12:53:43PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >Can anyone make heads (or tails) of this now? >> >> Read my original message. stderr does not buffer its output. stdout does. > >Okay, but I'm afraid that doesn't quite compute to me, maybe you could >clarify: > >- If it's flushing on every character, then why is the output speed >acceptable when using fputs/fprintf or anything except fputc? i.e. why >do I get the 300-baud-modem emulation only in a few cases? Don't know. I haven't investigated the problem in any great depth for some time. I suppose that in some cases newlib sends a string of characters to be output and in some cases it sends a character at a time, depending on the usage. >Sorry if I'm being dense. I was also going to ask what the heck newlib >was but I figured that out on my own. :-) A google search is extremely instructive on newlib, actually. cgf -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to aaaspam@sourceware.org and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/