the very definition of a regression bugs is when an upgrade changes a behavior in a such way that a function no longer works the same way. this is a regression bug. Plain as day. "-W interactive" is an unintuitive solution, and it's not exactly clear what's going on even in 12.10's man page.
and how long would I have had to wait for the buffer to catch up and show my output? I don't see that clearly documented. hell this was 3 years ago, I don't even remember what I was doing it for. replacing mawk with gawk was a cleaner solution that adding -W interactive to who knows how many scripts. replacing the defacto gnu awk with something that behaves very differently is a problem. IMO, mawk is still broken. this is poor behavior for a scripting helper tool. buffering's fine and all, but it should be finite, and for piped input, a couple seconds tops. also, does fflush() not actually flush? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382602 Title: tail piped to awk not processing To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mawk/+bug/382602/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
