GNU Core Utilities - Patches: patch #6532, tail -u -- unbuffered output
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patch #6532: tail -u -- unbuffered output
Submitter: | Juergen Weigert <jnweiger> | ||
Submitted: | Tue 03 Jun 2008 03:14:33 PM UTC | ||
Category: | None | Priority: | 5 - Normal |
Status: | None | Privacy: | Public |
Assigned to: | None | Open/Closed: | Open |
Mon 02 Feb 2009 09:50:26 AM UTC, comment #1: |
Pádraig Brady <pixelbeat> |
Tue 03 Jun 2008 03:14:33 PM UTC, original submission:
when tail's stdout is not a terminal, stdio library fools us by buffering large chunks of data.
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Juergen Weigert <jnweiger> |
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file #15788: tail-unbuffered.diff added by jnweiger (3KiB - text/x-diff - patch against coreutils-6.11 as found in SUSE Linux 11.0)
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tail -f already does a fflush().
Also we're about to add a `stdbuf` util to control buffering of utilities, so I'm not sure that this should be applied.