James Youngman wrote: > 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.
Exactly. > But of > course it would make all scripts which rely on this behaviour > non-portable. True. But if you can't achieve it on other systems anyway who cares :) Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
