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Date:      Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:37:29 -0600
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To:        Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [RFC] Force stdio output streams to line-buffered mode
Message-ID:  <20110219203729.GE27891@over-yonder.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110219185043.GA6573@felucia.tataz.chchile.org>
References:  <20110219185043.GA6573@felucia.tataz.chchile.org>

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On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 07:50:43PM +0100 I heard the voice of
Jeremie Le Hen, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> I've attached a small patch for stdio, so if the environment variable
> STDIO_IOLBF is set, the output streams will be line-oriented by default.
>     iostat -x 1 | env STDIO_IOLBF=1 grep -v ad10 | cat -n

I've no real comment on anything else (sounds like an interesting
hack, whatever else), but just for this particular case, you know that
grep has a --line-buffered arg, right?


-- 
Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/
           On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.



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