Mihai Surdeanu wrote:
| 
| The following program does not print anything under Linux RH 5.0. 
| It works with jdk 1.1.3.
| 
| class PrintTest{
| 	public static void main(String [] args){
| 		System.out.print('.');
| 	}
| }

Ick.  This looks like a buffer flush problem.

I have noticed that Kaffe does not flush buffered streams upon program
termination (in contrast to C stdio).  As far as I can tell, the specs do not
direct the class library to flush buffered streams on close, or at program
termination (and arranging for flush at termination seems to be tedious, if
not impossible).

Perhaps the JDK is gratuitously flushing on termination.  How nice of it.