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Re:Beej updated the classic Linux network programming guide by emmelaich on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @06:53PM (#32173461)
K&R2 is hard to beat for size and clarity of writing.

Could you elaborate on the "unbuffered shell output" comment?

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Re:Beej updated the classic Linux network programming guide by icedchai on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @08:02PM (#32174098)
I'm guessing he's talking about the putchar/getchar example in the first or second chapter?
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Re:Beej updated the classic Linux network programming guide by jamal-kumar on Thursday July 21, 2022 @01:36AM (#32176115)
Yeah that. It's extremely confusing and where a ton of people stop reading it.
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