Yes indeed, and many don't realize that C streams are also buffered and can also be tuned: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Buffering-Concepts

Yes indeed, and many don't realize that C streams are also buffered and can also be tuned: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Buffering-Concepts.html http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Buffering-... http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Controlling-Buffering.html http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Controllin... there are also threading issues: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Streams-and-Threads.html http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Streams-an... glibc even lets you implement custom streams (FILE* handles that will work with fgets etc. but call your own source and sink to do i/o)