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Re: Proposed new feature for bash: unbuffered pipes

From worley@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
Newsgroups gnu.bash.bug
Subject Re: Proposed new feature for bash: unbuffered pipes
Date 2020-04-23 19:39 -0400
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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> See stdbuf(1).

The limitation(s) of stdbuf are:  It can only be applied to the standard
I/O streams.  It doesn't affect statically-linked executables.  It only
applies to a single executable, so if the command is a shell function or
script, or creates subprocesses, it doesn't affect them.

Dale

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Re: Proposed new feature for bash:  unbuffered pipes worley@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) - 2020-04-23 19:39 -0400

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