Jim Meyering wrote: >> What about adding buffer control to all coretuils filters. >> Is that still a desired feature do you think? > > I don't relish the idea of adding an option or feature > to each and every filter in coreutils. Especially > considering that this approach solves the problem -- > albeit with requirement on gcc and LD_PRELOAD. > Maybe we can relax that requirement...
A general tool would be much better than adding options to all filters, hence why I originally asked to have this added to glibc. I wonder would it be useful to have a "Modified command invocation" command that set the LD_PRELOAD environment variable to point to a lib installed, and also set other environment variables to control the buffering depending on command line options. For example if we called the command stdbuf, then the following pipeline would be line buffered: tail -f access.log | stdbuf --fd=1 --size=1 cut -d' ' -f1 | uniq size=0 => unbuffered size=1 => line buffered size>1 -> specific buffer size Also we could have aliases for stdin stdout, linebuffered, ... We still have the requirement on LD_PRELOAD, but that's not too bad I think? Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
