Re: Buffering in standard streams

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <mjkc3t$uam$1%ger.gmane.org@localhost>,
Pierre Pronchery  <khorben%defora.org@localhost> wrote:
>		Hi tech-userlevel@,
>
>I just read this nice article from a coreutils maintainer:
>http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/stdio_buffering/
>
>After detailing issues about buffering and pipes, it mentions a tool,
>stdbuf(1), which was introduced in coreutils and then imported to
>FreeBSD (since 8.4).
>
>Do we want this too?
>http://www.unix.com/man-page/freebsd/1/stdbuf/
>
>HTH,
>-- 
>khorben
>
>

There is also libstdbuf that comes with it. Do we want both?
They are pretty small. I'd say why not?

christos