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Re: possible bug in coreutils?
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: possible bug in coreutils? |
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Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:22:55 +0100 |
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Bob Proulx wrote:
>Scott Griffith wrote:
>
>
>>I was just looking at the man page for grep, and wouldn't you know
>>it.. --line-buffer is not very well documented. Infact, all it
>>says about that is:
>>
>>(excerpt from man page)
>>--line-buffering
>> Use line buffering, it can be a performance penality.
>>
>>
>You might find this discussion interesting. By a coincidence the same
>issue was brought up in a different thread.
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-03/msg00071.html
>
>Bob
>
>
Yes that is a coincidence!
For my own reference I documented the interaction
between pipes and stdio buffering here:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/stdio_buffering/
Pádraig.