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Re: [Cs-dev] Unbuffered Output

Date2005-01-24 12:58
From"Michael Gogins"
SubjectRe: [Cs-dev] Unbuffered Output
I would greatly prefer output to be unbuffered. I would also prefer it if 
all console output went to stdout and none at all to stderr.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "steven yi" 
To: 
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 1:22 AM
Subject: [Cs-dev] Unbuffered Output


> Hi All,
>
> For a long while with blue and csound, when running csound, output from 
> csound out to stdout had been buffered in chunks.  Thus, when running from 
> blue, output to the console would not be timely as it would be when 
> running from the commandline.  I think the amount it buffered before 
> outputing to screen from blue would be 4K worth of text, then a flush.
> In my version of csound4, I recently added:
>
>  setbuf(stdout, NULL);
>
> to ccsound.c.  By making stdout unbuffered, all output would now go to 
> blue and out to the console in a timely manner.
> I would like to add this to both repository.  In csound4, this would be in 
> csound/ccsound.c, and in csound5, I believe the change would be added in 
> frontends/csound/csound_main.c.
> My question is, does anyone explicitly need stdout to be buffered?  If 
> not, this does greatly improve things for me and blue (for a long time I 
> thought it was an issue of something to recode in blue!), and it's a 
> change I would greatly appreciate having in both repositories.
>
> Thanks,
> steven
>
>
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Date2005-01-25 07:55
FromAnthony Kozar
SubjectRe: [Cs-dev] Unbuffered Output
On 1/24/05 7:58 AM, Michael Gogins  etched in stone:

> I would also prefer it if
> all console output went to stdout and none at all to stderr.

I don't think that this will work correctly with some of the utilities
(scsort, cscore, perhaps others) which send their output to stdout (the
sorted score) and any messages to stderr.

Anthony Kozar
anthony.kozar@utoledo.edu
http://akozar.spymac.net/



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