On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 23:03:03 GMT, Brian Burkhalter <b...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Please review this minor change to the specification of > `java.io.PrintStream`. The longstanding behavior for flushing is to invoke > the `flush()` method of the underlying `OutputStream` rather than its > override but this was not made explicit in the specification. > Yes, I noticed that as well. I didn?t think it was worth complicating things > for the purpose of this issue to address it. I guess what I was trying to ask is whether we should actually specify that `print` and `append` call `flush` - as this seems to be a side effect of some optimization. Maybe we should say that the implementation ensures that flush is called when writing a byte array or when a newline character or byte ({@code '\n'}) is written - but might call it in additional unspecified circumstances? ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2926