From: Fred Drake Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 18:57:34 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Clarify the default buffering for open(). (Comment from Andrew Dalke X-Git-Tag: v1.5.2b1~235 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2510d220482fa258d0ffe0d7ed5f5749550fb2bd;p=python Clarify the default buffering for open(). (Comment from Andrew Dalke ). --- diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex index 8914883d82..38e073f5b2 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex @@ -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