Tango I/O bug?

[kris]

Jason House wrote:
> 
> kris wrote:
>> Anyway, the most effective route here is simply to invoke flush() 
>> explicitly, whenever you actually need to. For example:
>>
>> # outStream.format("blah blah").flush;
> 
> 
> I thought I checked to verify that formatln calls newline which calls 
> flush.  I therefore concluded that an explicit flush call was useless. 
> My friend had the issue, so I couldn't really test.  When I hear more 
> about testing fixes, I'll post back on the list.


Well, newline *does* call flush, but only if the console has not been 
redirected. This was not the case in some earlier Tango releases, but 
the change was made to accommodate requests for faster throughput (flush 
is very expensive on some platforms). In short, we may have caused your 
app to break. Please accept my apologies, and I hope it didn't cause too 
much trouble for you