Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 18:55:36 -0500 (CDT) From: "Kenneth P. Stox" <stox@imagescape.com> To: gerald stoller <gerald_stoller@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Korn shell STDOUT Message-ID: <XFMail.000620185536.stox@imagescape.com> In-Reply-To: <20000620211553.31841.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On 20-Jun-00 gerald stoller wrote: > I am trying to learn how the (Korn) shell is organized, so I put some > printf statements in many places. They give a lot of output on STDOUT , > so in order to be able to read it, I pipe it to a tee command which stores > the output. I have found that the output pauses when the file has 16384 > (or thereabouts) bytes in it, sometimes it goes to 32768 (or thereabouts) > bytes in it, and a couple of times it has even gone up to 65536 (or > thereabouts) bytes. This behavior makes me think of buffered output, but > (with some checking via long files) neither pipe nor tee have buffered > output, and so I have been told by a Bell Labber. Anybody know how I can > easily change the > STDOUT to be unbuffered? You might want to write to stderr which, if memory serves correct, is un-buffered. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Kenneth P. Stox <stox@imagescape.com> Date: 20-Jun-00 Time: 18:54:17 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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