I have no issue with this behaviour, I just wish one could have buffered null-separated output as well.
On 19 October 2014 02:43, Norihiro Tanaka <nori...@kcn.ne.jp> wrote: > Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> wrote: >> Thanks, but as a stand-alone patch, that makes grep fail to compile, >> because there is one remaining use of the variable whose declaration >> is removed. > > Sorry, I fixed it, and compiled and tested. > >> In any case, there is some ambiguity in the documentation >> about what "line" buffering means with -Z. With -l and -Z, should >> grep --line-buffered flush after printing each <file_name, NUL> pair? >> That's what I'd expect. > > I interprete the means as line buffered option `_IOLBF' of setvbuf, and > I think that many users will expect the behavior. However, different > interpretations might also be present.
