Path: csiph.com!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C1ngel?= Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: Unbuffered pipes: cases to be supported Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 17:26:52 +0200 Lines: 14 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <878silvimy.fsf@hobgoblin.ariadne.com> <1587828412.1138.2.camel@16bits.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1587828421 4512 209.51.188.17 (25 Apr 2020 15:27:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu To: bug-bash@gnu.org Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <878silvimy.fsf@hobgoblin.ariadne.com> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=199.195.249.9; envelope-from=angel@16bits.net; helo=mailer.hiddenmail.net X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/04/25 11:26:57 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 199.195.249.9 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Mailman-Original-Message-ID: <1587828412.1138.2.camel@16bits.net> X-Mailman-Original-References: <878silvimy.fsf@hobgoblin.ariadne.com> Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:16242 On 2020-04-23 at 20:20 -0400, Dale R. Worley wrote: > The cases I've found where bash allocates a pipe, and thus an unbuffered > pipe may be wanted, are: What are you trying to solve? How do you expect those "Unbuffered pipes" to be implemented? I don't think there is any buffering going on in the pipes itself. The problem is likely to be at the program *writing* to the pipe. Which is out of the scope of bash itself. You may want to run them through stdbuf Best regards