From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...17n.org>
Date: 2005-02-07T23:26:25+09:00
Subject: Re: No stdout-flush before gets

In article <20050207133351.GA30424@homer.bertram-scharpf>,
  Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de> writes:

> I try to prompt for an input:
>
>   user@host:~$ ruby -e "print '? ' ; gets"
>   foo
>   ? user@host:~$ 
>   user@host:~$ ruby -e "print '? ' ; $>.flush ; gets"
>   ? foo
>   user@host:~$ 
>
> In the 1.8.2 it worked properly.
>
> Or should this be the desired behaviour?

No.  1.9 flushes $stdout before reading stdin, now.

Although stdio flushes other ttys, I hope 1.9 behaviour works well in
most case.
-- 
Tanaka Akira