From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-06-21T23:15:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Why is I/O slow?

On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 05:13:40PM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> "stdio" just doesn't provide the way to distinguish buffered and
> unbuffered input.  And glibc does not exist everywhere.  So I have to
> do the job by myself, if I want to tweak the buffer.  And I want to.

What about using setvbuf()?  It's part of the C standard, and can be
used to turn buffering on or off.  The default buffering cannot be
known, but the buffer size and/or buffering method can be changed.

Paul