Clarify the default buffering for open(). (Comment from Andrew Dalke

<dalke@bioreason.com>).
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Fred Drake 1998-11-02 18:57:34 +00:00
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@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ buffer size: 0 means unbuffered, 1 means line buffered, any other
positive value means use a buffer of (approximately) that size. A
negative \var{bufsize} means to use the system default, which is
usually line buffered for for tty devices and fully buffered for other
files.%
files. If omitted, the system default is used.%
\footnote{Specifying a buffer size currently has no effect on systems
that don't have \cfunction{setvbuf()}. The interface to specify the buffer
size is not done using a method that calls \cfunction{setvbuf()}, because