Hi, I've been annoyed multiple time when running a command such like iostat -x 1 | grep -v ad10 | cat -n The problem stems from two factors: - grep's stdio sees that its stdout is not a terminal, so stdout is full buffered and not line-buffered; - iostat produces output too slowly so the aforementioned buffer takes numerous seconds to be filled and flushed to the last command. This problems is not specific to FreeBSD, it is actually a consequence of POSIX specification. I've checked this on Solaris and Linux. I've attached a small patch for stdio, so if the environment variable STDIO_IOLBF is set, the output streams will be line-oriented by default. iostat -x 1 | env STDIO_IOLBF=1 grep -v ad10 | cat -n Before send it as a PR, I would like to hear your comments about this, especially: - the variable name (no bikeshed please, I just ask this if there is a naming convention I'm not aware of); - the documentation: I've put a hint in stdio(3) manpage and put the full explanation in setvbuf(3). Thanks. Regards, -- Jeremie Le Hen Humans are born free and equal. But some are more equal than others. Coluche
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