Input-Output Mechanisms: Errors Detection and Handling

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This lecture covers additional aspects of input-output mechanisms, focusing on output buffers and error detection during reading. It explains standard conversational input-output, stream concepts, synchronization using an input buffer, and output buffer management. The lecture also discusses redirection, the delay in output operations, and handling partial decoding errors. Examples illustrate reading failures, methods to clear the input buffer, and detecting and recovering from reading failures.

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