Re: [RFC] Force stdio output streams to line-buffered mode

From: Matthew D. Fuller <fullermd_at_over-yonder.net>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:37:29 -0600
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 07:50:43PM +0100 I heard the voice of
Jeremie Le Hen, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> 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

I've no real comment on anything else (sounds like an interesting
hack, whatever else), but just for this particular case, you know that
grep has a --line-buffered arg, right?


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Received on Sat Feb 19 2011 - 19:54:43 UTC

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