Hi,
[Addendum]
Mrinal Kalakrishnan typed:
> I was working on a problem involving something like this:
> tail -f <somefile> | <someprogram> | <someotherprogram>
> But the output gets buffered in the pipe, so I don't get the output
> immediately. And it is not even line-buffered - the output comes only
> after some 2 or 4 K has gone through the pipe.
And this happens only if there are two or more pipes. If there is just
one pipe, it works fine.
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