"hSetBuffering stdin NoBuffering" messes up terminal

John Meacham john at repetae.net
Fri Oct 17 14:34:41 EDT 2003


On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 03:47:29PM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> Removing the TTY handling from hSetBuffering is even simpler. For
> "simple, stupid programs", we could just provide e.g. hSetCooked, so
> programs which want the current behaviour can use:
> 
> 	hSetBuffering stdin NoBuffering
> 	hSetCooked stdin False
> 
> Programs which don't want this behaviour would just omit the
> hSetCooked call, which is substantially easier than the current
> situation (figure out if stdin is a tty, save the terminal settings,
> disable buffering, restore the settings).

yes! this would be ideal. 
        John

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