On Feb 8, 2008 5:26 PM, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is a very silly idea, considering it would violate the C standard > (§7.19.3#7): > > As initially opened, the standard error stream is not fully buffered; > the standard input and standard output streams are fully buffered if and > only if the stream can be determined not to refer to an interactive device.
That doesn't by itself make it a silly idea. It just means that glibc-based systems where the user has set (e.g.) _FORCE_GLIBC_STDIO_BUFFERING to the value "line" would not be conforming. Since such an option would not be mandatory (or the default) this is not in itself a reason not to support this. But of course it would make all scripts which rely on this behaviour non-portable. James. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
