autoflush

1. uncountablecomputingAutomatic flushing of a buffer.

   If the writer is set to autoflush mode, then all characters in the buffer are sent to their destination whenever println is called.

   2001, Cay S. Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 2: Fundamentals, page 715

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   With autoflush off, you can easily start generating content, have your code throw it away halfway through, and then issue a redirect.

   2002, Dave Rolsky, Ken Williams, Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason

present singular third person autoflushes · participle present autoflushing · participle past autoflushed · past autoflushed

1. transitivecomputingTo flush (a buffer) automatically.