Re: stdbuf feature request - line buffering but for null-terminated data

[Pádraig Brady]

On 09/03/2024 16:30, Zachary Santer wrote:
> 'stdbuf --output=L' will line-buffer the command's output stream.
> Pretty useful, but that's looking for newlines. Filenames should be
> passed between utilities in a null-terminated fashion, because the
> null byte is the only byte that can't appear within one.
>
> If I want to buffer output data on null bytes, the closest I can get
> is 'stdbuf --output=0', which doesn't buffer at all. This is pretty
> inefficient.
>
> 0 means unbuffered, and Z is already taken for, I guess, zebibytes.
> --output=N, then?
>
> Would this require a change to libc implementations, or is it possible now?

This does seem like useful functionality,
but it would require support for libc implementations first.

cheers,
Pádraig