Re: seekable stdin test failure on OS X

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Eric,

On 2 Apr 2007, at 18:15, Eric Blake-1 wrote:
> > Even on Linux, the fflush man page doesn't mention input streams:
> >
> >    http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man3/fflush.3.html
> >
> > So it seems that using fflush(stdin) is probably the wrong thing
> > to do altogether for a portable application.
>
> On the contrary, it makes it sound like we write a gnulib module
> that implements POSIX semantics of fflush, which creates a
> function rpl_fflush that calls fpurge or __fpurge under the hood
> when the regular fflush is broken on input streams; then portable
> applications can assume POSIX semantics for fflush.

Agreed, that is certainly the nicest way to work around it.

Cheers,
        Gary
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