Does NEWLINE always flush stdio buffer?

[Reinhard Foessmeier]

In article <11012 at ihlpl.ATT.COM> knudsen at ihlpl.ATT.COM (Knudsen) writes:
>I'd always understood that printf'ing any string ending in '\n'
>(newline) would flush the I/O buffer.
 ...
>Does anyone know the "official" rules of the traditional stdio
>library?  (Not the ANSII standard; I'm dealing with an older
>system).  Thanks, mike k

The System V manual says (setbuf (3) that "by default, output to a terminal
line is buffered and all other input/output is fully buffered".  So, the
behavior observed by you seems to be correct standard.

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