More on output truncation

Greg Hudson ghudson at MIT.EDU
Sat Mar 6 08:39:35 PST 1999


I've figured out why Kaffe truncated my program's output to 512
characters: System.out uses a BufferedOutputStream with a 128-byte
buffer, and nothing automatically flushes a BufferedOutputStream in
Kaffe.  If I add a flush, all is well.

I couldn't find any machinery in the JDK to automatically do flushes
either, so presumably the application is responsible for that.  But
the JDK's PrintStream() will automatically do a flush on a PrintStream
if autoFlush is set and you print() or write() a string with a newline
in it.  That accounts for the difference in behavior.


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