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Flush stdout buffer after displaying each responding host
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royhills committed Jan 4, 2024
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arp-scan currently uses C89 but use of C99 features is planned for
the next release.

* arp-scan.c: flush stdout output buffer after displaying each response.
This ensures that responding hosts are seen immediately when reading
from a pipeline rather than having to wait until the output buffer
is filled.

2023-10-22 Roy Hills <[email protected]>

* TODO: Moved all valid items from TODO to github issue with the
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7 changes: 5 additions & 2 deletions arp-scan.c
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}
}
/*
* Display the message on stdout.
* Display the message on stdout and flush output buffer.
*/
printf("%s\n", msg);
fflush(stdout);
/*
* Free the message and any field values.
*/
free(msg);

for (i=0; i<NUMFIELDS; i++)
if (fields[i].value) {
free(fields[i].value);
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