From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-03-17T17:59:45+09:00
Subject: Re: bug? ruby doesn't flush stdio on exit!


"Sam Roberts" <sroberts@uniserve.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:20050317014259.GA908@ensemble.local...
> Quoting aredridel@gmail.com, on Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 10:38:26AM +0900:
> > On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:34:47 +0900, Sam Roberts
<sroberts@uniserve.com> wrote:
> > > This can't be a feature... stdio should flush on exit!
> > >
> > > % ruby -e 'printf "hello"'
> > > % ruby -e 'printf "hello\n"'
> > > hello
> > > % ruby -e 'printf "hello";puts "hi";'
> > > hellohi
> > > %
> >
> > In the first example, your shell is overwriting the output.
>
> You're right, thanks!
>
> And I'm pretty surprised.
>
> > Not a bug.
>
> I think it is - a bug in zsh.
>
> start with bash:
>
> [ensemble] ~/p/ruby/zeroconf $ ruby -e 'print "hello"'
> hello[ensemble] ~/p/ruby/zeroconf $ zsh
> ensemble% ruby -e 'printf "hello"'
> ensemble%
>
>
> I think zsh is wrong here..

It's probably just the promt setting.  If the prompt starts with a CR then
old content of the line is overwritten.

    robert