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Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:44:37 -0500
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On 12/9/2011 2:47 PM, Brian Craft wrote:
> I compiled a program yesterday which output some lines to stdout. It
> appeared to be working. Running it today, I get nothing on stdout.
> However, if I redirect stdout to a file, the correct output appears in
> the file. E.g.
>
> # no output
> ./foo
> # "hello world" in bar
> ./foo>  bar
>
>
> In between yesterday and today, I've rebooted and run rebaseall, so
> perhaps one of those is responsible for the change.
>
> Any suggestions?

Sounds like buffering to me.  Is this program compiled with Cygwin's gcc
or something else?  What kind of terminal are you running it in?  Same one
as yesterday?

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