stdout - autoflushing

[Jesse Phillips]

On Tuesday, 3 December 2013 at 20:36:22 UTC, Benji wrote:
> On Tuesday, 3 December 2013 at 19:33:47 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>> On 12/03/2013 09:12 AM, Benji wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> in order to have correctly displayed output (before reading 
>>> something
>>> from stdin),
>>> I must call stdout.flush().
>>
>> I am surprised that you need that. What is your platform?
>>
>> Normally, stdin and stdout are "tied". Reading from stdin 
>> flushes stdout automatically.
>>
>> Ali
>
> I am using Xubuntu, 64bit, and GDC as compiler

I haven't seen this behavior, though I haven't used GDC (debian 
is close enough right). This has been how I've retrieved user 
data:
https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/JPDLibs/blob/cmdln/cmdln/interact.d#L60