Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Latest iteration of stdbuf command.
>
> Notes:
> * It installs an unversioned shared lib to PKGLIBDIR
> (/usr/local/lib/coreutils by default). This is searched
> for by stdbuf itself rather than relying on the system,
> which allows us to select the uninstalled lib alongside
> the stdbuf binary when running tests for example.
> * Controlling fully buffered mode doesn't work with glibc-2.7:
> http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10108
> * It only installs to ELF systems with GCC currently
> (I'm not using libtool at present).
>
...
Thanks for all the work.
Preliminary, superficial, feedback:
- adjust spacing before parens, e.g.,
> + free(libstdbuf);
> +
> + ret = putenv(LD_PRELOAD);
easiest for new files like this is just to filter though "indent --no-tabs"
- don't use // comment introducer. Here's one; there are others:
> +#define LIB_NAME "libstdbuf.so" //FIXME: don't hardcode
- Ewww. use ASCII apostrophe, not multi-byte in texi source:
> +don\342\200\231t use streams for I/O, and are thus unaffected.
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