Re: RFE: enable buffering on null-terminated data

On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 7:54 AM Carl Edquist wrote: > > (In my coprocess management library, I effectively run every coproc with > --output=L by default, by eval'ing the output of 'env -i stdbuf -oL env', > because most of the time for a coprocess, that's whats wanted/necessary.) Surrounded by 's

Re: 'wc -m' and combining characters

not particularly? define "character"... i think Apple/Swift is the only major proponent of "character == extended grapheme cluster[https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/#Grapheme_Cluster_Boundaries]";? plan 9's wc used `-r` (for "rune") to make it clearer that it was counting code points. coreutil

Re: 'wc -m' and combining characters

El 2024-03-11 14:33 PYST, Pádraig Brady escribió: > On 10/03/2024 15:16, Nick wrote: > > Markus Kuhn's FAQ says "A combining character is not a full > > character by itself" but wc is saying that it is, no? > It's a fair point. Libre Office for example will count as one > character. Thank you.

Re: 'wc -m' and combining characters

On 10/03/2024 15:16, Nick wrote: I'm attempting to learn about UTF-8. My question is about how wc counts "combining characters", as discussed here . I made two files, one with "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS" called p1.txt. The other wi

Re: Fix race conditions in timeout(1)

On 11/03/2024 15:17, Pádraig Brady wrote: There was a narrow race condition reported at: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/issues/82 Then I noticed another related race condition in the case of failing fork(). Both should be addressed by the attached. Actually the second one to ensure pr

Fix race conditions in timeout(1)

There was a narrow race condition reported at: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/issues/82 Then I noticed another related race condition in the case of failing fork(). Both should be addressed by the attached. cheers, PádraigFrom c1cf5148a1c6302d27661ff0af772de1e7dbb2b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00

Re: RFE: enable buffering on null-terminated data

On Sun, 10 Mar 2024, Zachary Santer wrote: On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 4:36 PM Carl Edquist wrote: Out of curiosity, do you have an example command line for your use case? My use for 'stdbuf --output=L' is to be able to run a command within a bash coprocess. Oh, cool, now you're talking! ;)