Re: possible bug in coreutils?

[Pádraig Brady]

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.