[patch #6532] tail -u -- unbuffered output

[Juergen Weigert]

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                 Summary: tail -u -- unbuffered output
                 Project: GNU Core Utilities
            Submitted by: jnweiger
            Submitted on: Tuesday 06/03/2008 at 15:14
                Category: None
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

when tail's stdout is not a terminal, stdio library fools us by buffering
large chunks of data.
This patch adds an option to run in unbuffered mode, 
Implemented as straightforward use of fflush().




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File Attachments:


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Date: Tuesday 06/03/2008 at 15:14  Name: tail-unbuffered.diff  Size: 3kB  
By: jnweiger
patch against coreutils-6.11 as found in SUSE Linux 11.0
<http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/download.php?file_id=15788>

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