Re: [PATCH] sed unbuffered

[Paul Jarc]

Roger Luethi <address@hidden> wrote:
> The current sed buffers input and output. Exceptions are made for input if
> it is a tty [1] and for output if we are writing to a file. For instance,
> if sed is reading from a pipe, it will hang on fread(3) until the input
> buffer is filled or EOF occurs [2].

Another way to deal with this kind of problem, without having to
modify each individual program that behaves this way: use the
ptybandage wrapper from Dan Bernstein's ptyget package.
<URL:http://multivac.cwru.edu./ptyget/>


paul