[fpc-devel] Output flush on pipes

[Martin Schreiber]

On Sunday 14 May 2006 20.17, Florian Klaempfl wrote:
> Martin Schreiber wrote:
> > The problem exists not only for the compiler but for all console
> > programs. I found no way to display the interactive output in a IDE
> > window on win32. On Linux I can use a pseudo terminal to get flushed
> > output from target. There are no pseudo terminals on win32, I must use
> > pipes. The current 2.0.3 RTL does not flush output on writeln if the
> > filehandle is a pipe (2.0.2 does!). So the IDE target console window is
> > unusable on win32 with FPC 2.0.3 RTL and works OK with FPC 2.0.2 RTL.
>
> Yes and no :) That's one of speed vs. usability decisions. Believe me,
> if flush pipes always, people will complain soon that FPC is too slow
> when writing to pipes.

How do FPIDE and Lazarus solve the problem?