Pádraig Brady wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > In summary it is all about I/O buffering happening in libc's output > > routines. If the output is not a tty then data is buffered for > > performance reasons into larger chunks before writing. > > Well tail -f flushes stdout so it's not actually the problem in this case.
Oh! Oops. I had assumed it was tail -f. But testing this now I see that I was mistaken. Sorry for the misinformation. Thanks for the correction! Testing 'tail -f | fold -s' this on my Debian systems (Etch and Lenny) does not show the buffering issue and works as desired by the original poster. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
