From: Robert Schmidt <rschm@broadpark.no>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: My pipe flushes late
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:20:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <g8h5du$vsd$2@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48AC08D1.20906@byu.net>
Eric Blake wrote:
> At this point, your best bet is to use something that presents d2u with a
> pty as stdout (thus output would be line-buffered), rather than a pipe,
> then consumes the pty output and throws it over the wall to the original
> pipe to sed with flushing. Have you tried expect - according to the link
> above, expect provides a script unbuffer that does just what I described?
Thanks for the informative answer - it confirmed my suspicions. I
wasn't able to get unbuffer working, but I may not need to - see my
other followup.
Robert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-20 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-20 11:55 Robert Schmidt
2008-08-20 12:07 ` Eric Blake
2008-08-20 13:20 ` Robert Schmidt [this message]
2008-08-20 12:16 ` Brian Dessent
2008-08-20 12:40 ` Brian Dessent
2008-08-20 13:15 ` Robert Schmidt
2008-08-20 13:31 ` Brian Dessent
2008-08-20 16:12 ` Christopher Faylor
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