flush printf() to a pipe

i constructed the following paradiam:

parent child
--------------------- --------------------
| | | |
------>| stdin fd[1] | --------> | stdin (fd[0]) |
| | | |
<------| stdout fd[0] | <-------- | stdout (fd[1]) |
| | | |
--------------------- ---------------------

the parent looks like

int main ()
{
... ...
setvbuf (stdout, NULL, _IONBF, 0);
... ...
switch (fork ())
{
... ...
default:
flags = fcntl (fd[0], F_GETFL, 0)))
... ...
flags |= O_NONBLOCK;
flags = fcntl (file_desc[0], F_SETFL, flags)))
... ...
num_byte = read (fd[0], buf, BUF_SIZE);
... ...
write (fileno(stdout), buf, num_byte);
... ...
}
... ...

return 0;
}

the child looks like

int main ()
{
... ...
printf ("hello, world\n");
fflush (stdout);
... ...
sleep (30);
return 0;
}

if i leave out fflush() in the child, "hello, world" never shows up on the console. but if i run the child as a stand-alone app, "hello, world" always shows up with or without fflush(), before the child returns.

why is this?

Use code tags please

what exactly is your problem by the way?
what did you expect to happen?

How about posting a small real program (one we can compile and run for ourselves) rather than one which you've "nicely" edited with ... ...
Who knows what critical detail you've omitted (or typos you've introduced in your editing - yes, I can see one of those).

Y do you think people do that?
do you think its cause they dont want there code stolen or what... i edit mine cause i know the is alot of spelling mistakes(as in the text out parts) and my code lay out sucks

Quote:

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Originally Posted by PanzTec

Y do you think people do that?
do you think its cause they dont want there code stolen or what... i edit mine cause i know the is alot of spelling mistakes(as in the text out parts) and my code lay out sucks

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The program in your signature appears to be missing something as well ;)

hi, All,

thx a lot for ur comments. i really appreciate them.

the issue was just resolved. to recap, apps use tty. most likely, only 1 tty available for each system. if a process needs to take the tty, it has to put other (child) processes on pipes or other msg passing ipcs. in order to make the pipes "really" like std i/o, one needs to use setvbuf() AFTER exec() not before.

let me know if u have any questions. or, i'll close the thread in a day or 2.