Re: [Help-glpk] Gusek : a GLPK IDE for Windows

[Michael Hennebry]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Andrew Makhorin wrote:

> I think that the "real output" did not work, because in most
> implementations of the C run-time library it is checked if the device
> assigned to stdout is a terminal device or not (via isatty), and if so,
> stdout is open in non-buffered mode (_IONBF) otherwise it is fully
> buffered (_IOFBF). Thus, if you launch glpsol from the command line,
> stdout is assigned to tty and therefore non-buffered, so you have the
> "real output". If the glpsol executable is called from SciTE, which
> replaces the standard output handle by a pipe handle, the output is
> buffered, because the pipe is not a tty device.

I see two possible fixes.
One is to provide an isatty that always returns 1.
The other is to call setvbuf to make stdout unbuffered.

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