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bug#8961: stdbuf has no effect on some programs
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Bruno Haible |
Subject: |
bug#8961: stdbuf has no effect on some programs |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Jun 2011 01:42:16 +0200 |
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Pádraig Brady wrote:
> The following shows I think that iconv is bypassing stdio and buffering
> internally?
>
> (echo; sleep 3; echo) | ltrace iconv -f ASCII
This is true for the glibc 'iconv' program. But stdbuf also does not work with
'iconv' from GNU libiconv, and this program uses stdio in a very simple form:
It reads from stdin using fread(). It does *not* call setvbuf explicitly.
$ (echo; sleep 3; echo) | ltrace iconv -f ASCII
__libc_start_main(0x804a250, 3, 0xffe20264, 0x804b3c0, 0x804b420 <unfinished
...>
strrchr("iconv", '/')
= NULL
setlocale(0, "")
= "de_DE.UTF-8"
setlocale(5, "")
= "de_DE.UTF-8"
bindtextdomain("libiconv", "/packages/gnu/share/locale")
= "/packages/gnu/share/locale"
textdomain("libiconv")
= "libiconv"
strlen("-f")
= 2
libiconv_open(0x804c262, 0xffe206d7, 0xffe206d4, 0xffe206d4, 0)
= 0x804f4a0
iconv_canonicalize(0x804c262, 0xffe206d7, 0xffe206d4, 0xffe206d4, 0)
= 0xf7effecc
iconv_canonicalize(0xffe206d7, 0xffe206d7, 0xffe206d4, 0xffe206d4, 0)
= 0xf7efff38
libiconvctl(0x804f4a0, 6, 0xffe201a0, 0xffe206d7, 0)
= 0
libiconvctl(0x804f4a0, 5, 0xffe20190, 0x804f4a0, 0)
= 0
dcgettext(0, 0x804c27e, 5, 0, 0)
= 0x8057b50
libiconv(0x804f4a0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
= 0
fread(0xffe1f110, 1, 4096, 0xf7df5420)
= 2
libiconv(0x804f4a0, 0xffe1d100, 0xffe1d104, 0xffe1d108, 0xffe1d10c)
= 0
__errno_location()
= 0xf7cb5688
fwrite("\n\n", 1, 2, 0xf7df54c0
) = 2
fread(0xffe1f110, 1, 4096, 0xf7df5420)
= 0
libiconv(0x804f4a0, 0, 0, 0xffe1d0f4, 0xffe1d0f8)
= 0
ferror(0xf7df5420)
= 0
libiconv_close(0x804f4a0, 0xf7df5420, 0x8057b50, 0, 0)
= 0
ferror(0xf7df54c0)
= 0
fclose(0xf7df54c0)
= 0
exit(0 <unfinished ...>
+++ exited (status 0) +++
$ (echo Hello; sleep 3; echo World) | stdbuf iconv -f ASCII
Hello
World
All output comes after 3 seconds - stdbuf has no effect.
I'm using glibc-2.8.
Bruno
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