[distcc] distcc user output should use stdio

[Martin Pool]

On  3 Feb 2004, Joe Buehler <jbuehler at hekimian.com> wrote:
> I have a problem with the output lines from the compiles getting
> all scrambled up in my emacs compile buffer.  I checked the
> source (2.12.1) and it looks like stdout and stderr from the
> compiler are written to the user using write().
> 
> Using stdio would be more user-friendly because
> the output for a tty or pty would then be line-buffered and
> output lines from separate compiles would not be all mixed up.
> 
> It might be necessary to bump up the stdio buffer size -- compiler
> output lines can get quite large.

Thankyou for the report.

What system are you using?

Does this only happen when there are a large number of errors?  It
seems like for <4k of stderr output the behaviour would be the same.

-- 
Martin 
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