On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 08:40:07PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 06:03:24PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > tags 593504 + upstream > > quit > > > > Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > > > thanks - I see that it's not fixed in upstream > > > > Tagging accordingly. > > I happened to revisit this one, and realized it's not a bug per se. > > gawk does a fflush after each write to stdout when stdout happens to > be a tty. > > man mawk provides this option: > > -W interactive sets unbuffered writes to stdout and line buffered reads > from stdin. Records from stdin are lines regardless of > the value of RS. > > Given that mawk's trying to be fast, doing what gawk is doing would > detract from that goal. The option's there for people who want it.
Note the bug title, though: even with an *explicit* fflush, mawk doesn't produce incremental output. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
