It was thus said that the Great Markus Wichmann once stated:
> And you fundamentally cannot change anything about the userspace of another 
> program, at least not in UNIX.

When I open file descriptors and exec(3) the new program inherits those. Is 
that not chaning the userspace of another process?

It was thus said that the Great Markus Wichmann once stated:
> Having one special-case program is better than changing all the general ones, 
> right?

Sure is. Too bad the stdbuf(1) uses such a fragile mechanism.

What if instead of changing every program we changed the standard library? We 
could make stdio line buffered by setting an environment variable.

Rodrigo.

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