cbreak problem

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <299 at ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU> cnrdean at ucbtopaz.BERKELEY.EDU () writes:
>I am porting a program on to a Berkeley 4.2  Vax, and I'm having
>trouble with my cbreak mode:  I need to process characters as they come
>in.  My problem is that when I try to print the characters, they don't
>get printed at the point that I request them to, unless I put a fflush
>in.  I thought that when I was in cbreak mode, putchar() would show up
>immediately, without fflushing.

No, STDIO does not pay attention to the terminal mode.
By default, output to a terminal (except stderr) will
be line-buffered.  You can override this by invoking
setbuf(stdout,(char *)NULL) before doing any output.