Re: Intent to Rewrite: pwgen
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 07:29:54PM -0400, Itai Zukerman wrote:
> With ls it's reasonable, but the following is something that drives me
> crazy. Try it with a 1-line file, foo:
>
> tail -f foo | more works
> tail -f foo | grep . works
> tail -f foo | grep . | more doesn't work
>
> Looks like grep has different behaviour depending on if stdout is a
> tty?
This is getting off-topic from debian-devel, but no, this has nothing
to do with isatty(). The reason why you're not seeing anything from
the last line is that stdio buffering.
- Ted
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