stdio EOF ?

[Erik Max Francis]

Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:

> Perhaps someone should implement a suck() method for programs which
> are
> thwarted by being down stream of someone who doesn't know when to
> flush().

That's great, but that wouldn't have resolved the original poster's
problem.  The buffering was inherent in the mechanism he was using for
reading stdin, not because he was lacking explicit calls to .flush.

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